@article{1479384,
      recid = {1479384},
      author = {Lohr, Eric, },
      title = {Nationalizing the Russian Empire : The Campaign against  Enemy Aliens during World War I /},
      pages = {1 online resource (256 p.)},
      abstract = {In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy"  minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World  War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass  deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular  violence.A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign  citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian  subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and  drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the  empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of  forced migration in history to that time. Because  foreigners and diaspora minorities were prominent among  entrepreneurial and landowning elites, the campaign against  them also became an explosive element in class and national  tensions on the eve of the 1917 revolutions. During the  war, the imperial regime dropped its ambivalence about  Russian nationalism and embraced unprecedented and radical  policies that "nationalized" the economy, the land, and  even the population. The core idea of the campaign--that  the country needed to free itself from the domination of  foreigners, internal enemies, and the exploitative world  economic system--later became a central feature of the  Soviet revolutionary model. Based on extensive archival  research, much in newly available sources, Nationalizing  the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the  study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution,  and ethnic cleansing.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479384},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674274877},
}