The "national factor" and the logic of Sovietology -- Soviet policies toward the non-Russian peoples in theoretic and historic perspective: what Gorbachev inherited -- Ideology and the making of a nationalities policy -- Legitimations, nationalities, and the deep structure of ideology -- Managing nationalism: state, law, and the national question in the USSR -- Elites and ethnic identities in Soviet and post-Soviet politics -- The political police and the national question in the Soviet Union -- Nations of the USSR: from mobilized participation to autonomous diversity -- Development and ethnicity in the Soviet Union -- Soviet economic structure and the national question -- Class, social structure, nationality -- The end of Sovietology: from Soviet studies.