HIST 236 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Russian Empire, Bourgeoisie
19 Oct 2018
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Russia"s new government promoted national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and established institutional forms of the nation state. The bolsheviks wanted to preserve the territorial integrity of the old russian empire and have a new centralized socialist state. In each territory the national language was declared the official language of the government. There were a number of nationalist movements that sprang up across a lot of the former russian empire that was not expected especially the ukraine. There was a qualified right of national self- determination. Lenin argued that finnish independence had intensified, and that national self-determination would have the same consequences within the soviet. Stalin thought that it was necessary to take autonomy away from the national bourgeoisie. Lenin and stalin argued that nationality emerged only with the onset of capitalism. Non-russian nationalism was a response to tsarist oppression and was motivated by the distrust of.
