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Actoṅ, T. A. "Russian Minorities in the Former USSR." Nationalities Papers 23, no. 2 (June 1995): 481–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905999508408392.

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In May 1992 an international conference examining the fate of minorities in the former Soviet Union was organized jointly by the Kennan Institute (DC) and Michigan State University. Fourteen speakers were invited from Moscow, St. Petersburgh, the north Caucasus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Moldova, and Lithuania; among them was Dr Ramazan Abdulatipov, Chairman of the Chamber of Nationalities of the Russian Parliament. The immediate impetus for the conference was a national survey of 6,500 Russians in 16 non-Russian regions of the former Soviet Union. The survey was conducted in August and September of 1991 by the Center of Public Opinion Studies in Moscow on the basis of a program prepared by Vladimir Shlapentokh and Lev Gudkov.
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Kolack, Shirley. "Ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union: The unfinished revolution." Journal of Intercultural Studies 8, no. 1 (January 1987): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256868.1987.9963310.

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Kononenko, Valerii. "National Policy of Ukrainian Soviet State Formations at the Stage of Formation of the Bolshevik Regime (1917–1920)." Scientific Papers of the Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University. Series: History, no. 36 (June 2021): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31652/2411-2143-2021-36-42-49.

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The aim of the article is to analyze the state policy towards the national minorities of Ukraine of the Ukrainian Soviet state formations of the period of formation of the Soviet goverment in Ukraine. The author explores the peculiarities of the formation and change of the national policy of the Bolsheviks on the eve of the October coup of 1917 and during the functioning of the Ukrainian People’s Republic of Soviets (UPR Soviets) and the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR). The research methodology is based on a combination of general scientific and special-historical methods of scientific research. Using the method of content analysis, the main Bolshevik legal acts of the period of establishment of the Bolshevik regime are analyzed, which reflect the basic principles and provisions of the national policy of the first Ukrainian Soviet state formations on the territory of Ukraine. The scientific novelty of the work is that the author focused on the evolution and functioning of the national policy of the Bolsheviks in Ukraine depending on internal and external factors that were associated with the establishment of the Bolshevik regime of 1917 – 1920’s. Conclusions. We believe that the policy of the Ukrainian Soviet state formations during the period of establishment of the Bolshevik regime towards the national minorities of Ukraine was an indispensable component of the national policy of the Bolsheviks of the RSFSR. The flirtation with the national liberation movements of the former peoples of the Russian Empire through the «right to self-determination» and the «right to national and cultural life» weakened with the stages of Bolshevism in Ukraine, and disappeared altogether with the establishment of the Bolshevik regime. Belief in the rapid and «triumphant» future victory of communism at the initial stage of Soviet rule in Ukraine deprived the Ukrainian Bolsheviks of the opportunity to determine the basic principles and provisions of national and cultural policy toward Ukraine’s ethnic minorities. Preserving the «independent» status of Soviet Ukraine during the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR was nothing more than a tactical step in the process of «convergence» of national Soviet formations in the natural process of victory of communism.
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Popov, Anton, and Igor Kuznetsov. "Ethnic Discrimination and the Discourse of “Indigenization”: The Regional Regime, “Indigenous Majority” and Ethnic Minorities in Krasnodar Krai in Russia." Nationalities Papers 36, no. 2 (May 2008): 223–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905990801934322.

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To many in both the East and the West it seemed axiomatic that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was due to “nationality reasons,” which were viewed as a natural process in the last empire's decline. Then, during the democratic reform of a totalitarian state, ethnic minority rights were first spoken of, and the growth of national self-awareness appeared to be an integral part of society's liberalization. Time has since shown that liberal changes in the economy and in the political and social spheres are not always accompanied by the establishment of social justice; indeed, it has frequently been minorities who are among the most unfortunate and marginalized groups in society. Defending the rights of minorities and combating ethnic and racial discrimination remains one of the most relevant issues in practically all post-socialist countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe.
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Gokmen, Gunes, Elena Nikishina, and Pierre-Louis Vézina. "Ethnic minorities and trade: The Soviet Union as a natural experiment." World Economy 41, no. 7 (April 23, 2018): 1888–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/twec.12650.

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Daly, Sarah Zukerman. "State Strategies in Multi-Ethnic Territories: Explaining Variation in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc." British Journal of Political Science 44, no. 2 (February 12, 2013): 381–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123412000701.

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After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, its twenty-seven successor states were charged with devising policies with respect to their ethnic minorities. This shock enables an analysis of the conditions that render states more likely to repress, exclude, assimilate or accommodate their minorities. One would anticipate that groups that are most ‘threatening’ to the state's territorial integrity are more likely to experience repression. However the data do not validate this expectation. Instead, the analysis suggests that minority groups’ demographics and states’ coercive capacities better account for variation in ethnic minority policies. While less robust, the findings further indicate the potential importance of lobby states and Soviet multinational legacies in determining minority rights. The results have implications for ethnic politics, human rights, nationalism, democratization and political violence.
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Bianco, Lucien. "The 1958-62 Chinese Famine and Its Impact on Ethnic Minorities." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 8, no. 1 (April 28, 2021): 173–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/ewjus644.

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China underwent its most murderous famine between 1958 and 1962. Although a demographic transition from the countryside to the cities was in its early stage and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was among the lowest in the world, objective conditions were far less decisive than Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies in bringing about the famine. A development strategy copied on the Soviet model favoured quick industrialization at the expense of rural dwellers. Such novelties as people’s communes, communal canteens, and backyard furnaces further aggravated the famine. Though ethnic minorities represented only 6 percent of China’s population, compared to forty-seven percent in the Soviet Union, Soviet nationality policies heavily influenced those of China. Initially mild, especially for Tibetans, Chinese nationality policies became more authoritarian with the advent of the Great Leap Forward in 1958. Qinghai Tibetans resisted the closure of many monasteries; then the same policies, and famine itself, caused a more important rebellion in 1959 in Xizang (Tibet). Repression and the flight of the Dalai Lama to northern India coincided with the end of Tibet’s special status in China. Internal colonialism did not, however, aggravate the impact of famine on national minorities in China. Their rate of population growth between the first two censuses (1953 and 1982) exceeded that of Han Chinese. Among the provinces most severely affected by famine, only Qinghai was largely inhabited by ethnic minorities. Within Qinghai the same pattern prevailed as in Han populated provinces: the highest toll in famine deaths was concentrated in easily accessible grain surplus areas. The overwhelming majority of victims of the Chinese famine were Han peasants. At most, 5 percent were members of ethnic minorities, compared to eighty percent of victims in the Soviet Union in the period between 1930 and 1933.
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Mędelska, Jolanta, and Marek Cieszkowski. "Отражение ранних вариантов советских национальных языков в московских русско-иноязычных словарях." Acta Baltico-Slavica 35 (July 28, 2015): 91–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.11649/abs.2011.008.

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Reflection of early Soviet dialects of national languages in Russian bilingual dictionaries published in MoscowAfter the October Revolution, over half of the citizens of the new Russian state were non-Russians. The historical homeland of some of them was outside the Soviet Union. The experiences of two largest national minorities: the Germans (1 238 000) and the Poles (782 000) were similar in many respects. Members of both nations were persecuted, suffered massive repression, and were deported to Siberia and Kazakhstan. The new cultural and political reality (separation from the historical homeland and national languages, influence of Russian and other languages of Soviet Union nations, necessity to use new Soviet lexis and technical/scientific terminology on a daily basis) forced changes in German and Polish used in the Soviet Union. Soviet dialects of national languages were reinforced in books, handbooks, the press, and propaganda materials etc. published in German and Polish in huge number of copies. The Soviet dialects of German and Polish were reflected on the right side of Russian-German and Russian-Polish dictionaries published in the 1930s by “Sovetskaya Entsyklopedia”. The analysis and comparison of the language material excerpted from the dictionaries show that Soviet dialects of both languages were characterized by the presence of orientalisms (result of the constant contact with the nations and nationalities of the Soviet Union and their culture) and unique lexis related to the Russian way of life (Russian culinary lexis, names of musical instruments, names of garments) and Sovietisms (i.e. new political terminology and words related to the Soviet way of life). The Germans found it more difficult to adapt their native code to life in the Soviet Union.
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Brown, Kate. "Securing the nuclear nation." Nationalities Papers 43, no. 1 (January 2015): 8–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2014.977856.

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In 1946, in the Southern Urals, construction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics first plutonium plant fell to the GULAG-Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD). The chief officers in charge of the program – Lavrentii Beria, Sergei Kruglov, and Ivan Tkachenko – had been pivotal figures in the deportation and political and ethnic cleansing of territories retaken from Axis forces during WWII. These men were charged with building a nuclear weapons complex to defend the Soviet Union from the American nuclear monopoly. In part thanks to the criminalization and deportation of ethnic minorities, Gulag territories grew crowded with foreign nationals and ethnic minorities in the postwar years. The NKVD generals were appalled to find that masses of forced laborers employed at the plutonium construction site were members of enemy nations. Beria issued orders to cleanse the ranks of foreign enemies, but construction managers could not spare a single healthy body as they raced to complete their deadlines. To solve this problem, they created two zones: an interior, affluent zone for plutonium workers made up almost exclusively of Russians; and anterior zones of prisoners, soldiers, ex-cons, and local farmers, many of whom were non-Russian. The selective quality of Soviet “nuclearity” meant that many people who were exposed to the plant's secret plutonium disasters were ethnic minorities, people whose exposures went unrecorded or under-recorded because of their invisibility and low social value.
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Humphreys, Brendan. "Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Stalin’s Soviet Union: New Dimensions of Research." Scando-Slavica 64, no. 2 (July 3, 2018): 312–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00806765.2018.1525320.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Minorities, soviet union"

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Kashirin, Alexander Urievich 1963. "Protestant minorities in the Soviet Ukraine, 1945--1991." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10956.

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xiv, 934 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The dissertation focuses on Protestants in the Soviet Ukraine from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the USSR. It has two major aims. The first is to elucidate the evolution of Soviet policy toward Protestant denominations, using archival evidence that was not available to previous students of this subject. The second is to reconstruct the internal life of Protestant congregations as marginalized social groups. The dissertation is thus a case study both of religious persecution under state-sponsored atheism and of the efforts of individual believers and their communities to survive without compromising their religious principles. The opportunity to function legally came at a cost to Protestant communities in Ukraine and elsewhere in the USSR. In the 1940s-1980s, Protestant communities lived within a tight encirclement of numerous governmental restrictions designed to contain and, ultimately, reduce all manifestations of religiosity in the republic both quantitatively and qualitatively. The Soviet state specifically focused on interrupting the generational continuity of religious tradition by driving a wedge between believing parents and their children. Aware of these technologies of containment and their purpose, Protestants devised a variety of survival strategies that allowed them, when possible, to circumvent the stifling effects of containment and ensure the preservation and transmission of religious traditions to the next generation. The dissertation investigates how the Soviet government exploited the state institutions and ecclesiastic structures in its effort to transform communities of believers into malleable societies of timid and nominal Christians and how the diverse Protestant communities responded to this challenge. Faced with serious ethical choices--to collaborate with the government or resist its persistent interference in the internal affairs of their communities-- many Ukrainian Evangelicals joined the vocal opposition movement that contributed to an increased international pressure on the Soviet government and subsequent evolution of the Soviet policy from confrontation to co-existence with religion. The dissertation examines both theoretical and practical aspects of the Soviet secularization project and advances a number of arguments that help account for religion's survival in the Soviet Union during the 1940-1980s.
Committee in charge: Julie Hessler, Chairperson, History; R Alan Kimball, Member, History; Jack Maddex, Member, History; William Husband, Member, Not from U of O Caleb Southworth, Outside Member, Sociology
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Kochanek, Hildegard. "Die russisch-nationale Rechte von 1968 bis zum Ende der Sowjetunion : eine Diskursanalyse /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370572071.

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Salitan, Laurie P. "An analysis of Soviet Jewish emigration in the 1970s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f984e4b9-f578-4ee9-89d5-b26a65cca29b.

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Domestic, not foreign affairs drove Soviet policy on Jewish emigration during the period of 1968-1989. This study challenges the prevailing view that fluctuating levels of exit from the USSR were correlated to the climate of relations between the USA and the USSR. The analysis also considers Soviet-German emigration for comparative perspective. Extensive historical background, with special emphasis on Soviet nationality policy is provided.
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Musat, Jana. "République de Moldavie : Quel territoire pour quelle population ? : Origine, toponymie, frontières, peuplement." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30006.

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Le 27 août 1991, l’opinion publique internationale prenait acte de la naissance de la République de Moldavie, dont deux tiers du territoire ont constituées jusqu’en 1941 la province roumaine de Bessarabie. Depuis toujours, la Principauté de Moldavie se trouve dans une confluence de trois grandes cultures : slave, latine et orientale ; trois grandes religions : orthodoxe, catholique et musulmane ; trois grands peuples : slave, latin et turc et trois courants idéologiques : panslavisme, panturquisme et pan-latinisme. C’est pourquoi, à travers les siècles, la Principauté de Moldavie a manœuvré constamment entre ces Puissances et ces courants pour garder son identité nationale. Aujourd’hui, en principe, la Moldavie est toujours dans la situation de jongler entre la CEI et l’UE, entre Est et Ouest, sa situation géopolitique étant la même.Dans la Première partie de notre thèse nous avons étudié l’origine, la toponymie et les frontières de la Bessarabie, mais aussi l’engouement des Grandes Puissances pour ce territoire. Nous traiterons aussi les guerres et les négociations de paix qui la caractérisent, allant de la guerre russo-turque jusqu’au régime tsariste qui y régnait. Nous avons ensuite suivi les changements subis par la Bessarabie pendant la Première guerre mondiale, avec la création de la République Démocratique Moldave, tout en s’attardant sur le processus de la création de l’URSS avec ses répercussions sur l’évolution de la Moldavie soviétique poststalinienne. Nous avons finalement, étudié ici-même la question des nationalités, et les concepts de « nation », « nationalisme », « dénationalisation », « russification », « collectivisme », « moldovenisme » etc.La Deuxième partie démarre avec des questions sur l’identité nationale moldave, et l’éclatement des conflits régionaux. Nous décrivons les minorités séparatistes de Gagaouzie et de Transnistrie, qui n’acceptent pas la souveraineté de la Moldavie. Le régime de Tiraspol est un régime oppressif et totalitaire, qui doit être éloigné par l’action des facteurs externes. De plus, nous étudions la création de la CEI et GUAM, l’implication de l’OSCE, de l’UE, de la Russie, de l’Ukraine et de la Roumanie dans le processus de négociation pour la résolution du conflit transnistrien. Finalement, nous examinons la manière avec laquelle la « fédéralisation », et la « régionalisation » peuvent résoudre les conflits ethniques en Moldavie. En conclusion nous répondons aux questions centrales sur le territoire et la population moldave
On August 27 1991, the international public opinion acknowledges the birth of the Republic of Moldova, which has represented two-thirds of the Romanian province of Bessarabia until 1941. During the history, Principality of Moldova is parting of the ways of three cultures: Slavic, Latin and Eastern; three great religions: Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim; three populations: Slavic, Latin and Turkish; and three ideologies: Pan-Slavism, Pan-Turkism and pan-Latin. Therefore, over the centuries, the Principality of Moldova has continuously handled these Great Powers and ideologies to keep its national identity. Nowadays, Moldova is still able to pursue between CIS and EU policies and between East and West geopolitical situation.In the first part of the thesis, we study the origin, toponyms and borders of Bessarabia, and we characterize the interest of the Great Powers for this territory. For it we describe, the wars and peace negotiations, starting with the Russo-Turkish war until the period of Bessarabia under the tsarist rule. Moreover, we treated the period of Bessarabia during the First World War, but also the creation of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, describing the process of foundation the USSR and its impact on the evolution of the post-Stalin Soviet Moldova. Finally, we studied the nationality question and the concepts like the "nation", the "nationalism", the "denationalization", the "Russification", the collectivism", the "moldovenism" etc...The Second Part starts with questions about the Moldovan national identity and the outbreaks of regional conflicts. We raise the issue of the separatist minorities of Gagauzia and Transnistria, which do not accept the sovereignty of Moldova. The Tiraspol regime is a totalitarian and oppressive regime, which must be removed by the action of external factors. Moreover, we study the creation of the CIS and GUAM and the involvement of the OSCE, EU, Russia, Ukraine and Romania in the negotiation process for the resolution of the Transnistrian conflict. Finally, we discuss the possibilities of how cans the "federalization" and "regionalization" solves the ethnic conflicts in Moldova. In conclusion, we answer to the questions dealing about the territory and the Moldovan population
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Demuth, Andreas. "Politics, Migration and Minorities in Independent and Soviet Estonia, 1918-1998." Doctoral thesis, 2003. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2003120619.

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Ullmannová, Nicola. "Právní postavení menšin v Rusku." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-409254.

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1 Abstract Thesis title: The legal status of minorities in Russia This work is an overview of the legal status of minorities in Russia and their mutual interaction with the dominant nation in individual historical stages. Its subject is to explore changes in the status of minorities in political, cultural, linguistic, religious and fundamental human rights. This is put in the historical context and the influence of the state's minority policy on state integrity is examined, including the assessment of the adequacy of the state-legal arrangement for the needs of national minorities. The space is also devoted to the administrative division of the country, which plays an important role in Russian terms. The pros and cons of period legislation are evaluated. Its impact on the practical life of minorities is illustrated by examples of specific minorities. The work is structured chronologically, presenting the history of Russia primarily in terms of milestones relevant to national minorities. The first part devoted to the Russian Empire monitors its gradual expansion and differences in the legal status of the conquered nations. Approximately from the middle of the 19th century, the Russian legislation has been directed towards unification, resp. Rusification of the whole empire, while the causes and effects of...
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Books on the topic "Minorities, soviet union"

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Krag, Khelen. The north Caucasus: Minorities at a crossroads. [London]: Minority Rights Group, 1994.

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R, Brower Daniel, and Lazzerini Edward J, eds. Russia's Orient: Imperial borderlands and peoples, 1700-1917. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

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W, Walker Edward, ed. Minorities, mullahs, and modernity: Reshaping community in the former Soviet Union. [Berkeley, Calif.]: International and Area Studies, University of California, 1997.

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Warshofsky, Lapidus Gail, Zaslavsky Victor 1937-, and Goldman Philip, eds. From union to commonwealth: Nationalism and separatism in the Soviet Republics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Trude, Maurer, and Auch Eva-Maria, eds. Leben in zwei Kulturen: Akkulturation und Selbstbehauptung von Nichtrussen im Zarenreich. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000.

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Fowkes, Ben. The disintegration of the Soviet Union: A study in the rise and triumph of nationalism. Basingstoke: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Fowkes, Ben. The disintegration of the Soviet Union: A study in the rise and triumph of nationalism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Karklins, Rasma. Ethnic relations in the USSR: The perspective from below. London: Unwin Hyman, 1986.

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Pipes, Richard. Russia observed: Collected essays on Russian and Soviet history. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1989.

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O'Connor, Kevin. Intellectuals and apparatchiks: Russian nationalism and the Gorbachev revolution. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Minorities, soviet union"

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Zamyatin, Konstantin. "The Evolution of Language Ideology in Post-Soviet Russia." In Cultural and Linguistic Minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union, 279–313. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10455-3_11.

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Quénu, Benjamin. "From Russian to Uzbek (1928-53)." In Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context, 525–54. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0340.34.

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This chapter focuses on Stalin-era literary translations from Russian to Uzbek in the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Highlighting the different steps for the increasing supervision of the translators’ activity within the Soviet Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan, it sheds light on the material conditions of the professionalization of the translation industry, including career benefits, risks and opportunities, gender inequality, and strategies of institutional control. Within this framework, my chapter addresses the question of inequality between the languages of the Soviet Union through a both quantitative and qualitative approach, contextualising translations from Russian in a wider cultural landscape, including translations from Uzbek to Russian as well as from the languages of the Republic’s minorities. I highlight the complexity of the sometimes contradictory objectives assigned to translation activity, incorporating at the same time a policy of modernisation that gave pre-eminence to Russian culture. Using unpublished archive material as well as press articles and literary texts, my study reveals the shifting strategies of the Soviet Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan, while revealing how individuals responded to changing directives from local and central Party and state authorities. By analyzing the ever-changing criteria for accurate translation from Uzbek into Russian at key historical moments, such as the Great Terror and the Great Patriotic War, I expose the linguistic implications of translation policy.
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Dunajeva, Jekatyerina. "From “Unsettled Fortune-Tellers” to Socialist Workers: Education Policies and Roma in Early Soviet Union." In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, 65–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_5.

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AbstractThis chapter embeds Roma identity formation in the politics of early Soviet Union, by examining the role schools played in delineating boundaries of belonging and the sense of nationhood. I analyze education policies and politics towards minorities in the 1920s and ‘1930s through textbooks in Romani language from the time. I show that textbooks, often through educating basic grammar to children, sought to alter their identities from “unsettled fortune-tellers” to working Roma. Roma way of life was equated with oppression of the old, pre-revolutionary times, while new, Socialist life that Roma were to become part of was characterized by equality and work. What was seen as the traditional Roma way of life was incompatible with the goals of the state, and schools were to “transform” Roma children into productive Socialist workers. Socialism, therefore, was seen as the emancipation and empowerment Roma needed in order to leave their “backwards” habits in the past.
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Rann, James. "Russian Poetry and the Rewilding of Scottish Literature." In Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context, 253–80. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0340.15.

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This chapter borrows the metaphor of ‘rewilding’ from contemporary ecology to describe the effect of Russian poetry translated into Scots on the literature of Scotland in the past century. In that time, it is argued, poets writing in Scots have treated Russia as a source of unorthodox, revolutionary energy that might help them push back against anglophone monoculture and revitalize Scottish letters. I divide this history into three periods: the first is the modernist ‘Scottish Renaissance’ of the 1920s, in which the iconoclastic Hugh MacDiarmid made versions of Aleksandr Blok, Zinaida Gippius and others part of his interrogations of and prescriptions for Scottish national identity and language; the second is the 1960s and 1970s, when modernism slipped into postmodernism and when the presiding figure was the prolific and playful Edwin Morgan, who maintained a lifelong interest in the poetry of Vladimir Maiakovskii; I close with the period between the fall of the Soviet Union and the present, in which no single figure or explicit ideology has dominated, except perhaps for a growing concern with the promotion of minority identities as an end in itself. In all three periods, we see translators using Russian poetry, and especially experimental modernist verse, to help them interrogate Scotland’s ambivalent position as both perpetrator and victim of colonialism and to explore the productive tension between locally and globally dominant English and its minoritized sister-language Scots.
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Kimura, Hidesuke. "Korean Minorities in Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan." In Koreans in the Soviet Union, 85–100. University of Hawaii Press, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780824890704-007.

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Ray, Douglas. "Minorities and Education in the Soviet Union." In Education and Cultural Differences, 163–82. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315211268-10.

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Goff, Krista A. "Making Minorities and National Hierarchies." In Nested Nationalism, 19–60. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501753275.003.0002.

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This chapter traces the evolution of Soviet nationality policies in the 1920s and 1930s and highlights early attempts to layer korenizatsiia across titular and nontitular communities in Azerbaijan. It explains what it meant to be a minority in the Soviet Union and about the process of minoritization there. It also describes an informal hierarchy that began forming among nationalities in those early decades and kept shifting in subsequent years. The chapter talks about nontitular and titular nationalities in the Soviet Union as inconsistent national cultural investments which meant that Moscow treated various titular populations differently and there was often little coherence to the nontitular category. It focuses on the example of Azerbaijan, which shows that national cultural resources varied widely across nontitular populations throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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Robinson, Paul. "Late Soviet Conservatism." In Russian Conservatism, 163–80. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501747342.003.0011.

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This chapter examines conservatism toward the fall of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to reform the Soviet system politically and economically through the policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) failed. In the late 1980s, the situation in the Soviet Union continued to deteriorate. Political opposition to communism grew rapidly, especially among some of the country's non-Russian national minorities. The three Baltic republics demanded independence. The Soviet Union teetered closer to the brink of collapse, triggering a conservative backlash among those wanting to preserve what they could of the existing order. This reached its culmination in August 1991 in a failed coup d'état against Gorbachev. Following this, the communist system disintegrated extremely quickly, and on December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist.
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Goff, Krista A. "Introduction." In Nested Nationalism, 1–18. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501753275.003.0001.

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This chapter seeks to explain why history writing about nontitular minorities in the Soviet Union and in Azerbaijan has proven to be problematic. It looks at the variety of nontitular communities that live in Azerbaijan and the many ethnic conflicts that emerged during its transition to independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It also focuses on the state structures and the people living within Soviet Union and Azerbaijan, as well as their geographical range that intersects with the history of Iran, Turkey, and neighboring republics in the Soviet Caucasus. The chapter describes a regional world that extended beyond Soviet borders and argues that uncovering nontitular histories helps to better understand both Soviet and post-Soviet ethnic conflicts. It mentions the Soviet state that supported the development of minorities to counter the colonial legacy of Great Russian chauvinism.
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Keep, John L. H. "The Restless Empire." In A History of the Soviet Union 1945–1991, 307–28. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192803191.003.0016.

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Abstract The more perspicacious Soviet leaders recognized that the principal threat the regime faced came from the national minorities. Census data showed that overall they were growing more rapidly than Russians. Efforts to promote the ‘growing together’ of all nations of the Union on the basis of adherence to common Soviet values were meeting with intermittent success at best. The ideal of their eventual ‘merger’ was becoming a mirage, as remote as the achievement of a world-wide Communist order. For this reason during the 1970s it was rarely mentioned in public discourse and gave way to the less menacing term ‘complete unity’.
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Reports on the topic "Minorities, soviet union"

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Harrington, Keith. ECMI Minorities Blog. 50 Years of South Tyrolean Autonomy. European Centre for Minority Issues, April 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53779/qplm4423.

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This blog post examines how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impacted the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia in southern Moldova. The author argues that the Moldovan government’s sharp condemnation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its move toward the European Union has caused tensions with the Gagauz minority. Furthermore, the text highlights how since the beginning of the invasion, Gagauzia’s regional authorities, as well as the general population, have resisted efforts by the Moldovan government to limit Russian influence in the region. It also shows how dissatisfaction with the policies of the current government, combined with an economic crisis and a prolonged drought, have led to political infighting within Gagauzia, and the rise of certain pro-Russian figures who employ radical language reminiscent of the late-Soviet period
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