Stalin defined nationhood by shared language, territory, economy, and culture

Evidence

A nation is a historically established, stable community of people, coming into existence on the basis of a community of language, territory, economic life, and psychological constitution, which manifest themselves in a community of culture. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1065

Categorization

• DEFINE: Stalin’s canonical four-part definition of a nation, juxtaposed by Robinson against how poorly it fit the Black American condition.