The document summarizes Lenin and Stalin's views on nationalism in the Soviet Union. Some key points:
1) Lenin accepted the reality of nations and established an ethnically federalist system, granting rights and autonomy to nationalities.
2) The Soviet Union was described as a "communal apartment" where national units had rooms of their own within the larger building.
3) Stalin emphasized that nations had the rights to self-determination, including secession, and established policies like korenizatsiia to develop national cultures and promote the use of native languages in education and administration.
4) While promoting national development, the Soviet system maintained that Russians, as the formerly dominant group, had
This document discusses nationalism as a motivation for collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe. It focuses on Croatia as a case study. Nationalism in Croatia long predated Nazi ideology and was based on goals of autonomy, territorial expansion, and oppression of ethnic minorities like Serbs. While the Nazis provided an opportunity for Croatian nationalists to gain power, Croatian nationalism had its own religious and ethnic bases and differences from Nazi ideology. Collaboration thus served Croatian nationalist goals more than embracing Nazi beliefs.
This document defines key concepts related to nationalism and nation-building. It discusses how nationalism and national identity can develop through either a primordial view that nations have always existed, or a modernity view that they emerged due to social and economic changes like capitalism and industrialization. Benedict Anderson's concept of nations as "imagined communities" is also summarized, where he argues nations emerged from challenges to dynastic rule during the Enlightenment. The document also discusses nation-building as an ongoing struggle, noting examples like the Philippine revolution led by Bonifacio and indigenous intellectual movements introducing concepts like "kapwa" and "bayan" related to Filipino nationalism.
The document provides historical context about the 90th anniversary of the June 1924 Democratic Revolution in Albania. It summarizes the key events and causes of the revolution as follows:
1) The revolution overthrew the corrupt government of Albanian feudal lords that had been in power. It was led by fighters from across Albania of different social classes and religions who sought democratic principles of freedom and human rights.
2) Despite its failure, the revolution inspired younger generations of Albanians in their struggle for democratic governance in Albania, Kosovo, and other Balkan countries with Albanian populations.
3) The assassination of opposition leader Avni Rustemi in 1924 sparked widespread protests and uprising against the
This document summarizes a presentation on representation, identity, and culture in global cities. It discusses topics like transnational networks and cultural production, multiculturalism and global identity, and consuming global cultures. It references theorists like Ulf Hannerz, Steven Flusty, Leonie Sandercock, and Stefan Krätke. The presentation outline includes sections on flows of culture, cosmopolitanism and global identity, migration, modernism and postmodernism, and how global media cities are major nodes of globalizing culture and media industries.
This document discusses the concepts of ethnicity, race, nationality, and ethnic groups. It defines ethnicity as people who share cultural identity or heritage, race as people who share biological ancestry, and nationality as people who share legal attachment to a country. Ethnic groups may be defined by traits like religion, culture, or shared history. The document also discusses how ethnic groups form through immigration and indigenous populations, and the concepts of acculturation, assimilation, ethnic neighborhoods, and ghettos.
This document contains questions and answers related to the topic of nationalism. It discusses various concepts like nation, nationalism, national identity, national self-determination, pluralism, and challenges related to nationalism in the contemporary world. The document contains questions ranging from one marker to six markers addressing different aspects of nationalism.
This document discusses nationalism as a motivation for collaboration with Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe. It focuses on Croatia as a case study. Nationalism in Croatia long predated Nazi ideology and was based on goals of autonomy, territorial expansion, and oppression of ethnic minorities like Serbs. While the Nazis provided an opportunity for Croatian nationalists to gain power, Croatian nationalism had its own religious and ethnic bases and differences from Nazi ideology. Collaboration thus served Croatian nationalist goals more than embracing Nazi beliefs.
This document defines key concepts related to nationalism and nation-building. It discusses how nationalism and national identity can develop through either a primordial view that nations have always existed, or a modernity view that they emerged due to social and economic changes like capitalism and industrialization. Benedict Anderson's concept of nations as "imagined communities" is also summarized, where he argues nations emerged from challenges to dynastic rule during the Enlightenment. The document also discusses nation-building as an ongoing struggle, noting examples like the Philippine revolution led by Bonifacio and indigenous intellectual movements introducing concepts like "kapwa" and "bayan" related to Filipino nationalism.
The document provides historical context about the 90th anniversary of the June 1924 Democratic Revolution in Albania. It summarizes the key events and causes of the revolution as follows:
1) The revolution overthrew the corrupt government of Albanian feudal lords that had been in power. It was led by fighters from across Albania of different social classes and religions who sought democratic principles of freedom and human rights.
2) Despite its failure, the revolution inspired younger generations of Albanians in their struggle for democratic governance in Albania, Kosovo, and other Balkan countries with Albanian populations.
3) The assassination of opposition leader Avni Rustemi in 1924 sparked widespread protests and uprising against the
This document summarizes a presentation on representation, identity, and culture in global cities. It discusses topics like transnational networks and cultural production, multiculturalism and global identity, and consuming global cultures. It references theorists like Ulf Hannerz, Steven Flusty, Leonie Sandercock, and Stefan Krätke. The presentation outline includes sections on flows of culture, cosmopolitanism and global identity, migration, modernism and postmodernism, and how global media cities are major nodes of globalizing culture and media industries.
This document discusses the concepts of ethnicity, race, nationality, and ethnic groups. It defines ethnicity as people who share cultural identity or heritage, race as people who share biological ancestry, and nationality as people who share legal attachment to a country. Ethnic groups may be defined by traits like religion, culture, or shared history. The document also discusses how ethnic groups form through immigration and indigenous populations, and the concepts of acculturation, assimilation, ethnic neighborhoods, and ghettos.
This document contains questions and answers related to the topic of nationalism. It discusses various concepts like nation, nationalism, national identity, national self-determination, pluralism, and challenges related to nationalism in the contemporary world. The document contains questions ranging from one marker to six markers addressing different aspects of nationalism.
This document discusses two cases of genocide: the Armenian Genocide and the Bosnian Genocide. It provides background information on the ethnic and religious tensions that preceded each genocide. Regarding the Armenian Genocide, it describes how the Turkish government began mass killings and death marches of Armenians in 1915, killing an estimated 1.5 million people. For the Bosnian Genocide, it outlines the ethnic conflicts that arose from the breakup of Yugoslavia and details the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, where Bosnian Serb forces killed between 7,000-8,000 Bosniak men and boys.
Iii Stalin's SSSR; Nationalities Question And SuccessionJim Powers
This presentation discusses the Nationalities Question in the formation of the USSR, Stalin's role as Peoples Commissar for Nationalities Affairs, and his struggle to succeed Lenin as Vozhd
First published on 17th February 2008 in Buzzle, AfroArticles and American Chronicle
Excerpt:
It would be better for Serbia to be the first country to recognize Kosova; otherwise, 2008 Serbia will soon look like 1991 Yugoslavia, because Voivodina and Sanjak will be the next to secede.
Affirmative Action Empire to the Great TerrorSean Guillory
The document summarizes key aspects of Soviet policy and society during the Stalin period, including affirmative action programs for national minorities, the promotion of national identities and languages, industrialization efforts, the creation of the "New Soviet Person", and the rise of Stalinist social values around family and gender roles. It also discusses the Soviet nationality policy, korenizatsiia or "indigenization", the shift towards the "Friendship of Peoples" concept, literacy campaigns, purges of the Communist Party, navigating everyday life, and the policy of Socialist Realism in art and culture.
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This document summarizes and analyzes the Kurdish nation and nationalist movement. It begins by discussing the author's experience in Indonesia where he noticed a lack of strong national identity and instead found stronger local and religious identities. It then discusses theories that the modern nation is often a constructed identity promoted by elites rather than an organic popular identity. The document focuses on the Kurdish people, who number around 30 million but lack an independent state, being divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. It analyzes Kurdish nationalist uprisings and struggles for autonomy or independence. The document proposes examining the nation as both imagined through identity and performed through nationalism to understand cases like the Kurdish nation.
Alexander Bulatovich was a 19th-20th century Russian explorer who spent almost 3 years in Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia) from 1897-1899. He witnessed the Oromo genocide and Abyssinian expansion outside their borders. In his writings, he provides an eyewitness account of the destruction of Oromo and other societies and cultures by the Abyssinians. He describes how the Abyssinians pursued fiscal and political goals by subjugating the Oromo and other groups, destroying over half the population, and imposing their rule and laws. His accounts reveal the truth about the barbarism of the Abyssinian conquest and refute their propaganda.
Nationalist Resentment and Ethnic Conflict in the Former YugoslaviaMeghan Cochran
Nationalist resentment and ethnic tensions in Yugoslavia escalated throughout the 1980s and led to its dissolution in the 1990s. The newly independent republics of Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia were ethnically diverse with longstanding tensions that erupted into brutal conflict. Over 100,000 people were killed in fighting between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks as the international community failed to intervene. Shared histories but divergent identities along religious and cultural lines fueled atrocities and ethnic cleansing on all sides. Lingering distrust and divisions remain in the region despite peace agreements.
Nationalism emerged in Europe in the late 18th century as new types of communities and identities developed. The printing press helped spread standardized languages and ideas, while the industrial revolution destroyed old bonds and forged new identities in cities. The middle class sought more power and united with other groups by encouraging a shared identity and sense of belonging. By the late 18th century, the idea of the nation state had developed, exemplified by the American and French revolutions. Benedict Anderson's theory of imagined communities argues that nations are imagined and socially constructed by people who see themselves as part of the same group, rather than having long-standing natural elements. A nation is an imagined political community that is conceived as both limited and sovereign.
The document discusses nationalism and ultranationalism. It defines ultranationalism as an extreme form of nationalism that glorifies national identity, promotes racism, and can lead to conflict. It then provides historical examples of how ultranationalist dictators like Stalin and Hitler rose to power in the 1930s by exploiting peoples' fears and promoting propaganda. They persecuted groups seen as threats to their vision of national identity. The document examines how these dictators suppressed opposition and violated civil rights in the name of nationalism.
Ernest Renan argued that a nation is defined not by objective criteria like language or culture, but by a subjective "desire to live together" and shared memories of suffering. Ernest Gellner viewed nations as modern constructs that emerged with industrialization to serve the needs of standardized education and mobility. Anthony Smith argued that modern nations have roots in pre-modern "ethnies" defined by shared ancestry, history, culture, and territory. Benedict Anderson conceived of nations as "imagined communities" made possible by the development of print capitalism and vernacular languages that allowed for unified communication over great distances.
The document summarizes the theories of five major nationalist theorists: Ernest Gellner, Miroslav Hroch, Eric Hobsbawm, Ernest Renan, and Benedict Anderson. It provides overviews of their key concepts, models, and definitions regarding nationalism. It also includes a timeline of major historical events relevant to the development of nationalist ideologies and nation-states.
History of Estonia during the XX century, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Protests in the end of the XX century, as well as accession to NATO and the European Union
Ukraine has historically relied on its energy resources and transit infrastructure developed during the Soviet era. It now faces challenges of outdated infrastructure, overreliance on natural gas imports from Russia, and high energy inefficiency. Ukraine aims to diversify its energy sources through European cooperation and new pipelines like White Stream, but its dependence on Russian gas and transit fees remains a geopolitical vulnerability.
Eastern enlargement's impact on specific policy sectorsElmir Badalov
The document discusses the impact of Eastern enlargement across several EU policy sectors. It finds that while consensus building has become more difficult with larger membership, the new members have strengthened the roles of the Presidency and Commission. The new members have also faced challenges in keeping up with EU business rhythms. Specific impacts included lower healthcare resources and standards in new members, challenges in implementing consumer protection laws, and increased EU dependency on energy imports. Overall, enlargement has contributed to a more assertive expression of national interests while also providing economic opportunities.
Economic explanations of Eastern EnlargementElmir Badalov
The document discusses the economic dimensions and motivations of the European Union's eastern enlargement. It notes that key EU members like Germany supported enlargement due to anticipated economic gains from increased trade and investment opportunities with Central and Eastern European markets. While concerns were raised about issues like competition and immigration, the overall economic effect of enlargement for the EU has been seen as modest and with distinct material benefits, such as increased exports, jobs, and foreign direct investment from the new members.
Europeanization in the Western Balkans Elmir Badalov
This document discusses the EU's use of policy conditionality to influence border management and other policies in South Eastern European countries seeking EU membership. It outlines the Stabilization and Association Process which made EU membership a potential prospect in exchange for meeting conditions like reforming court systems and border control. Case studies of Croatia and Macedonia show how both countries implemented EU demands to improve border security and management. The EU's political conditionality has been an effective tool for influencing reforms, but its success depends on a clear membership perspective and low domestic political costs of compliance.
Holocaust in Poland. During the II World War, jewish and non-jewish residents of Poland have suffered from Hitler Germany's ruthless policy. In particular, Hitler was aiming to kill every single jew in the world. Jews predominantly were living in Poland, Germany constructed extremination and concentration camps, as well as ghettos within the territory of Poland, in order to ruin them very quickly.
This Presentation was for Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe Course.
This document discusses the issue of "shock therapy", which refers to sudden economic reforms implemented in post-communist states in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There were two main approaches - the "big bang" advocated by economists like Jeffrey Sachs, which involved immediate liberalization, and a more gradual approach. Countries like Poland and Russia pursued big bang reforms, rapidly privatizing assets and removing price controls. However, this led to economic crises and criticism that reforms did not adequately support social policies or build new institutions. Some argue for more gradual reforms based on the Chinese model of incremental change while maintaining state control over large industries.
This document discusses two cases of genocide: the Armenian Genocide and the Bosnian Genocide. It provides background information on the ethnic and religious tensions that preceded each genocide. Regarding the Armenian Genocide, it describes how the Turkish government began mass killings and death marches of Armenians in 1915, killing an estimated 1.5 million people. For the Bosnian Genocide, it outlines the ethnic conflicts that arose from the breakup of Yugoslavia and details the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, where Bosnian Serb forces killed between 7,000-8,000 Bosniak men and boys.
Iii Stalin's SSSR; Nationalities Question And SuccessionJim Powers
This presentation discusses the Nationalities Question in the formation of the USSR, Stalin's role as Peoples Commissar for Nationalities Affairs, and his struggle to succeed Lenin as Vozhd
First published on 17th February 2008 in Buzzle, AfroArticles and American Chronicle
Excerpt:
It would be better for Serbia to be the first country to recognize Kosova; otherwise, 2008 Serbia will soon look like 1991 Yugoslavia, because Voivodina and Sanjak will be the next to secede.
Affirmative Action Empire to the Great TerrorSean Guillory
The document summarizes key aspects of Soviet policy and society during the Stalin period, including affirmative action programs for national minorities, the promotion of national identities and languages, industrialization efforts, the creation of the "New Soviet Person", and the rise of Stalinist social values around family and gender roles. It also discusses the Soviet nationality policy, korenizatsiia or "indigenization", the shift towards the "Friendship of Peoples" concept, literacy campaigns, purges of the Communist Party, navigating everyday life, and the policy of Socialist Realism in art and culture.
The document discusses different types of culture, including British cultural materialism, American multiculturalism, and Asian American writers. British cultural materialism began in the 1950s and examines how culture reproduces social relations. American multiculturalism emerged in the 1960s to recognize distinct immigrant identities and celebrate racial/ethnic heritages. It includes African American, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian American writers.
This document summarizes and analyzes the Kurdish nation and nationalist movement. It begins by discussing the author's experience in Indonesia where he noticed a lack of strong national identity and instead found stronger local and religious identities. It then discusses theories that the modern nation is often a constructed identity promoted by elites rather than an organic popular identity. The document focuses on the Kurdish people, who number around 30 million but lack an independent state, being divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. It analyzes Kurdish nationalist uprisings and struggles for autonomy or independence. The document proposes examining the nation as both imagined through identity and performed through nationalism to understand cases like the Kurdish nation.
Alexander Bulatovich was a 19th-20th century Russian explorer who spent almost 3 years in Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia) from 1897-1899. He witnessed the Oromo genocide and Abyssinian expansion outside their borders. In his writings, he provides an eyewitness account of the destruction of Oromo and other societies and cultures by the Abyssinians. He describes how the Abyssinians pursued fiscal and political goals by subjugating the Oromo and other groups, destroying over half the population, and imposing their rule and laws. His accounts reveal the truth about the barbarism of the Abyssinian conquest and refute their propaganda.
Nationalist Resentment and Ethnic Conflict in the Former YugoslaviaMeghan Cochran
Nationalist resentment and ethnic tensions in Yugoslavia escalated throughout the 1980s and led to its dissolution in the 1990s. The newly independent republics of Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia were ethnically diverse with longstanding tensions that erupted into brutal conflict. Over 100,000 people were killed in fighting between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks as the international community failed to intervene. Shared histories but divergent identities along religious and cultural lines fueled atrocities and ethnic cleansing on all sides. Lingering distrust and divisions remain in the region despite peace agreements.
Nationalism emerged in Europe in the late 18th century as new types of communities and identities developed. The printing press helped spread standardized languages and ideas, while the industrial revolution destroyed old bonds and forged new identities in cities. The middle class sought more power and united with other groups by encouraging a shared identity and sense of belonging. By the late 18th century, the idea of the nation state had developed, exemplified by the American and French revolutions. Benedict Anderson's theory of imagined communities argues that nations are imagined and socially constructed by people who see themselves as part of the same group, rather than having long-standing natural elements. A nation is an imagined political community that is conceived as both limited and sovereign.
The document discusses nationalism and ultranationalism. It defines ultranationalism as an extreme form of nationalism that glorifies national identity, promotes racism, and can lead to conflict. It then provides historical examples of how ultranationalist dictators like Stalin and Hitler rose to power in the 1930s by exploiting peoples' fears and promoting propaganda. They persecuted groups seen as threats to their vision of national identity. The document examines how these dictators suppressed opposition and violated civil rights in the name of nationalism.
Ernest Renan argued that a nation is defined not by objective criteria like language or culture, but by a subjective "desire to live together" and shared memories of suffering. Ernest Gellner viewed nations as modern constructs that emerged with industrialization to serve the needs of standardized education and mobility. Anthony Smith argued that modern nations have roots in pre-modern "ethnies" defined by shared ancestry, history, culture, and territory. Benedict Anderson conceived of nations as "imagined communities" made possible by the development of print capitalism and vernacular languages that allowed for unified communication over great distances.
The document summarizes the theories of five major nationalist theorists: Ernest Gellner, Miroslav Hroch, Eric Hobsbawm, Ernest Renan, and Benedict Anderson. It provides overviews of their key concepts, models, and definitions regarding nationalism. It also includes a timeline of major historical events relevant to the development of nationalist ideologies and nation-states.
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11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
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https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
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Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
Nationalism in Russia and in post-soviet countries
1. Past Determinants of
Nationalism in Russia and
CIS
Yuri Slezkine,’’The USSR as a Communal
Appartment,or How a Socialist State Promoted
Ethnic Particularism.1994.
Elmir Badalov
TSPMI
15/04/2013
2. Introduction
Lenin's acceptance of the reality of
nations and "national rights" was one of
the most uncompromising positions he
ever took
his theory of good nationalism formed
the conceptual foundation of the Soviet
Union and his NEP-time policy of
compensatory "nation-building"
(natsional'noe stroitel'stvo) was a
spectacularly successful attempt at a
state-sponsored conflation of language,
"culture," territory and quota-fed
bureaucracy
3. The world’s first state of workers and
and peasants ‘was the world’s first
state to institutionalize ethnoterriterial
federalism,classify all citizens
according to their biological
nationalities and formally prescribe
preferential treatment of certain
ethnically defined populations.
4. Vareiki(1924) The USSR was a large
communal appartment in which
national state units,various republics
and autunomous provinces
represented separate rooms.
5. Stalin:nation is a historically
evolved,stable community based on a
communal language,territory,economic
life and psychological make-up
manifested in a community of culture.
Lenin:rejected the national concept of
culture
Lenin & Stalin: Nations had rights.
6. Rights of Nations(Lenin &
Stalin)
It has the right to organize its life on
the basis of autonomy
It has the right to enter into federal
relations with other nations
It has the right to complete secession
Nations are sovereign and all nations
are equal
7. Characteristics of Nations
All nations were not equal in size
All nations were not equal in their
development
All nations were not equal in their
economic personae
But all nations-indeed all nationalities
no matter how "backward"-were equal
because they were equally sovereign,
that is, because they all had the same
rights.
8. why set up ethno-territorial
autonomies under socialism ?
First of all, because Lenin's socialism
did not grow on trees
"Il'minskii system
Only the mother tongue," claimed
Il'minskii, "can truly, rather than only
superficially, set the people on the
path of Christianity.
9. Oppressor-nation nationalism
"great-power chauvinism, was
gratuitously malevolent;
was the result of unfair size advantage
could only be eliminated as a
consequence of proletarian victory
and subsequent self-discipline and
self-purificatio
11. "We are going to help you develop your
Buriat, Vo-tiak, etc. language and
culture, because in this way you will
join the universal culture , revolution
and communism sooner."
If we say that we do not recognize the
Finnish nation but only the toiling
masses, it would be a ridiculous thing
to say. Not to recognize something that
is out there is impossible: it will force us
to recognize it.",Former oppressor
nations needed to gain the trust of the
former oppressed nations.
12. Great Russians
GR belonged to an advanced,formerly
dominant nation possessed of a
secure tradition of national statehood
and frequently guilty of ethnic
arrogance and insensitivity known as
a great-power chauvinism.
13. Non-Great Russians
All the other nationalities, defined
negatively and collectively as "non-
Great Russians," were victims of
tsarist-imposed statelessness,
backwardness and "culturelessness,"
which made it difficult for them to take
advantage of new revolutionary
opportunities and sometimes tempted
them to engage in "local nationalism."
14. What on earth is going on? How
much longer are we going to
keep breeding separate
autonomies?"
For as long as it takes." For as long as
it takes to overcome "economic and
cultural backwardness . . . , economic
differences, differences in customs
and linguistic differences."
15. The Russian territory was "unmarked"
and, in effect, consisted of those lands
that had not been claimed by the non-
Russians known as "nationals
Mikoyan's objection that this was too
neat, that Azerbaijan was culturally
and economically "ahead of many
Russian provinces" and that the
Armenian bourgeoisie was as
imperialistic as any was dismissed by
Stalin and by the congress
16. Stalin's "autonomization plan"
called for greater centralization in
"every- thing essential" but took it for
granted that such non essential
matters as "language" and "culture"
were to be left to the "genuine internal
autonomy of the republics.
17. Local nationalism policy
Georgians oppressed Abkhazians and
Ossetians
Azeris bullied Armenians
Uzbeks ignored the Turkmen
"local nationalism" had to be anti-
Russian to be a danger and national
territories belonged to those
nationalities whose names they bore.
18. Native language policy
the exclusive criterion
revealing large numbers of people
who did not speak "their own
language." Such communities were
considered "denationalized" by
ethnographers and not entirely
legitimate by party officials and local
elites
19. Lithuanians who spoke Belorussian
should be considered Belorussians.
Russian-speaking Ukrainians or
Ukrainian-speaking Moldavians were
expected, and sometimes forced, to
learn their mother tongue irrespective of
whether their mothers knew how to
speak it
Similarly, Marr classified Iranian-
speaking Ossetians and Talysh as north
Caucasians on the basis of their "ethnic
culture," "genuine popular religion,'' "way
of life " and "emotional attachment to the
20. All non-Russians were "nationals"
entitled to their own territorial units
and all nationally defined groups living
in "somebody else's" units were
national minorities entitled to their own
units.
Secure within their borders, all Soviet
nation alities were encouraged to
develop and, if necessary, create their
own autonomous cultures
21. Native language means of social
discipline, as a social unifier of nations
and as a necessary and most
important condition of successful
economic and cultural development
In 1926 Abkhaz speaking
Abkhazia(part of Georgia),had
43Armenian,41Greek,27 Russian,2
Estonian and 2 German schools.
all 192 languages identified during the
1920s would sooner or later become
official.
22. To become official, however, a
language had to be "modernized
the creation or further codification of a
literary standard based on "live popular
speech
rendered through a "rational" phonetic
alphabet (arabic and cyrillic writing
systems were abandoned)
purged of alien ballast
23. The inventors of literary Uzbek and
Tatar declared war on "Arabisms and
Farsisms,"
the framers of standard Ukrainian and
Belorussian campaigned against
"Russ- isms,"
and the protectors of the eliteless
"small peoples" liberated the newly
codified Chukchi language from
English borrowing
24. By 1928, books were being published
in 66 languages (as compared to 40 in
1913) and newspapers in 47 (205
non-Russian titles in all)
25. Education in native language
it was the only way to overcome
national mistrust
speech reactions in native languages
occur more quickly
socialist content was only accessible
to nationals in national form
developed" nations consisted of
individuals whose native language
equaled the official language equaled
the nation's name
26. By 1927, 93.7 percent of Ukrainian
and 90.2 percent of Belorussian
elementary-school students were
taught in their "native" languages
27. According to the official policy of
korenizatsiia (literally, "taking root" or
indigenization), the affairs of all ethnic
groups at all levels-from union
republics to clan soviets-were to be
run by the representatives of those
ethnic groups.
Nationality was an asset and there
were no nationally defined entities
above the union republic
28. Russians
remained in a special position.
In Russia proper they had no national
rights and no national opportunities
(because they had possessed and
misused them before)
was a politically empty category
29. As Stalin declared to the XVI Party
Congress in July 1930, The theory of the
fusion of all nations of ... the USSR into one
common Great Russian nation with one
common Great Russian lan- guage is a
nationalist-chauvinist and anti-leninist
theory that contradicts the main thesis of
leninism, according to which national differ-
ences cannot disappear in the near future
but will remain in existence for a long time,
even after the victory of the proletarian
revolution on a world scale.
30. The most spectacular aspect of the
Stalin revolution among nationalities
was the vastly increased support for
the cultural autonomy of all "national
minorities" (non-titular nationalities),
however small.
Between 1928 and 1938 the number
of non-Russian newspapers increased
from 205 titles in 47 languages to
2,188 titles in 66 languages
31. The dictatorship of the proletariat was
a Tower of Babel in which all tongues
on all floors would have a
proportionate share of all jobs.
In 1931 the "socialist offensive" began
to wane and in 1934 it was effectively
halted for lack of an adversary.
Addressing the "Congress of Victors,"
Stalin declared that the USSR had
finally "divested itself of everything
backward and medieval" and become
an industrialized society based on a
solid socialist foundation
32. High stalinism" did not reverse the
policy of nation building.It changed the
shape of ethnicity but it never
abandoned the "leninist principle" of
unity through diversity.
As class criteria became irrelevant,
the former default nationality became
almost as saturated with ethnicity as
all others. The noun "national" was
criticized and later killed because
there were no "non-nationals" left
33. Russians never became a nationality
like any other. On the one hand, they
did not have a clearly defined national
territory (RSFSR remained an
amorphous "everything else" republic
and was never identified with an
ethnic or historic "Russia")
they did not have their own Party and
they never acquired a national
Academy
34. Between 1937 and 1939 Cyrillic
replaced Latin in all the literary
standards created in the 1920s, and in
1938, after a three-year campaign,
Russian became an obligatory second
language in all non- Russian schools.
35. In the early 1930s, at the time of the
reappearance of college admissions
tests and shortly before the
introduction of student files (lichnye
dela), employee cards (trudovye
knizhki) and the death penalty for
attempted flight abroad, all Soviet
citizens received internal passports
that formally defined them in terms of
name, time and place of birth,
authorized domicile (propiska) and
nationality
One's name and propiska could be
36. "The fact that an ethnic group has its
own national territory-a republic,
province, district or village soviet-is
proof that the ethnic group in question
is an officially recognized nationality
By the end of the decade all Union
republics had their own writers'
unions, theaters, opera companies
and national academies that
specialized primarily in national
history, literature and language.'
37. The "friendship of the peoples" thesis
required that all Soviet nationalities be
deeply moved by the art of other
Soviet nationalities. As Gorky put it,
"We need to share our knowledge of
the past. It is important for all Union
republics that a Belorussian know
what a Georgian or a Turk is like, etc."
38. the Russians had been transformed
from a revolutionary people recovering
a national past into "the most
outstanding of all nations comprising
the Soviet Union
39. On 7 April 1948 Stalin said Every
nation, whether large or small, has its
own specific qualities and its own
peculiarities, which are unique to it
and which other nations do not have.
These peculiarities form a contribution
that each nation makes to the
common treasury of world culture,
adding to it and enriching it. In this
sense all nations, both small and
large, are in the same position and
each nation is equal to any other
nation.
40. According to Stalin, language was not
part of the superstructure-or, indeed,
of the base. It "belonged to the whole
nation" and was "common to the
whole society" across social classes
and thoughout history.
In short, it was official: classes and
their "ideologies" came and went, but
nationalities re- mained. In a country
free from social conflict, ethnicity was
the only meaningful identity.
41. A civilized country, in other words, was
an ethno-national state in which the
official language was by definition
"native." The stalinist nationality policy
had obviously borne fruit.
Civilized stalinism ("developed
socialism") was the credo of the
"collective leadership" that presided
over the twilight years of the Soviet
Union.
42. All nationalities were ranked-
theoretically along the evolutionary
scale from tribe to nation, and
practically by territorial or social status