The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism

1994/01/01 by Yuri Slezkine · 1 voice · 7 citations
Social Sciences · #Eastern European Communism and Reforms #Soviet and Russian History

paper · doi:10.2307/2501300

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Abstract

Soviet nationality policy was devised and carried out by nationalists. 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 ("oppressed-nation") 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.

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