HIST 3250Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Language, Ukrainization
22 Feb 2016
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Nationalism, communism, and the affirmative action empire : the affirmative action empire. Map showing the ethnic groups, huge difference in languages and ways of life, almost the entire world in one empire, people living in their historical territories (they were not immigrants) In 1920s soviet created a policy promoting minorities and minority cultures. Carrying the message of communism to the populations. First country to establish programs to promote minorities and its cultures in a positive way. Solution was the creation of the union of ussr in 1922. Compromise within the party as well, some believing the working class should have privileges no matter their ethnicity. Originally four republics coming together to create ussr (the russian soviet. Federated socialist republic, the transcaucasian soviet federated socialist. Republic, the ukrainian soviet socialist republic, and the belorussian soviet. All of the decision making powers were still in moscow. Constitution of 1924 the russians had the right to self determination.
