This event was a book launch of a monograph written by former CREES member of staff Jeremy Smith. His account of the role of nationality policy and nationalities in the USSR and its successor states in his new book discussed by Arfon Rees and Galina Yemelianova.

Speaker: Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland), Discussants: Galina Yemelianova (CREES/POLSIS)and Arfon Rees (CREES/History).