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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Yuri Slezkine
Yuri Slezkine*
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The Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
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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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Slavic Review , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , Summer 1994 , pp. 414 - 452
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1994

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157. North Ossetian, Iakut, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Kara-Kalpak, Kabarda, Balkar, Turkmen, Tajik, Adyge and Kalmyk (see Furmanova, A., “Podgotovka natsional'nykh kadrov dlia teatra,” Revoliutsiia i natsional'nosti 5 [1936]: 29–30 Google Scholar).

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