HIS335H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Chinghiz Aitmatov, Yuri Slezkine, Ukrainian Language
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Yuri slezkine, the soviet union as a communal apartment, or how a socialist. State promoted ethnic particularismlinks to an external site. , slavic review, Earnestness of bolshevik efforts on behalf of ethnic particularism. National form was acceptable because there was no nationalist content. Minorities are not upset about not having their own state, they are upset because their identity is being denied / oppressed. Grant them rights and they will be happy with the state. Cared about communism / socialism being universal, would foster individual / national identities so long as they aligned. Belief that nations were a "necessary evil" that had to be tolerated. Great russians versus everyone else - "non-great russians" Attempts to fix "backwardness" of exterior russia, catch up to central. Russians were not nationally distinct within russia itself. Attempting to match demographics with what was provided. Extremely convoluted and difficult --> mixed regions, multiple levels of government at which to provide services, etc.
