The peoples of the Soviet Union

The Great Seal of the Soviet Union bears the slogan of that country in eleven different languages - an impressive symbol of the fact that the Soviet Union is in itself a successful League of Nations. It is a functioning union of peoples as diverse in language, customs, religions, and racial origins as can be found under any flag in the world. Who are these peoples - 177 groups in all - and how have they achieved a union that has survived the acid test of war? 

Corliss Lamont has written a vivid and fact-crammed description of the nations that make up the Soviet Union, and an explanation of the way in which racial and cultural democracy has been made a reality in the U.S.S.R.

Here are the Great Russians, the largest group in the Union, and the minority groups in European Russia; the fantastic racial patchwork of the Caucasus area; the ancient Mohammedan peoples of Soviet Central Asia; and the frontier communities of Soviet Siberia.