Russian-Soviet nationality policy and foreign policy : a historical overview of the linkage between them / Sergei Maksudov & William Taubman -- Totalitarian collapse, imperial disintegration, and the rise of the Soviet West : implications for the West / Alexander J. Motyl -- The Soviet South : nationalism and the outside world / Ronald Grigor Suny -- The Soviet "nationality front" : some implications for U.S. foreign and security policy / Jeremy R. Azrael -- Appendix I : Nationalities in the population of the USSR.