Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet UnionRussian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state's citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin's power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude. His research reveals that the Russian attitude toward citizenship was less xenophobic and isolationist and more similar to European