The "national factor" and the logic of Sovietology / Gregory Gleason -- Soviet policies toward the non-Russian peoples in theoretic and historic perspective: what Gorbachev inherited / Walker Connor -- Ideology and the making of a nationalities policy / Ronald J. Hill -- Legitimations, nationalities, and the deep structure of ideology / Neil Harding -- Managing nationalism: state, law, and the national question in the USSR / John N. Hazard -- Elites and ethnic identities in Soviet and post-Soviet politics / Mark R. Beissinger -- The political police and the national question in the Soviet Union / Amy Knight -- Nations of the USSR: from mobilized participation to autonomous diversity / Theodore H. Friedgut -- Development and ethnicity in the Soviet Union / Zvi Gitelman -- Soviet economic structure and the national question / Richard E. Ericson -- Class, social structure, nationality / Walter D. Connor -- The end of Sovietology: from Soviet studies / Alexander J. Motyl.