The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Slavic Review
- Vol. 53 (2) , 414-452
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2501300
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.Keywords
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