Hosking Geoffrey. Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

Belknap Press, 2006. — 484 p.At the heart of this penetrating work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire.Marxism and the Crisis of Russian Messianism.
The Effects of Revolution and Civil War.
Soviet Nationality Policy and the Russians.
Two Russia's Collide.
Projecting A New Russia.
The Great Fatherland War.
The Sweet and Bitter Fruits of Victory.
The Relaunch of Utopia.
The Rediscovery of Russia.
The Return of Politics.
An Unanticipated Creation: The Russian Federation.Appendix.
Notes.