| Titre | The russification of the RSFSR | |
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| Auteur | Terry Martin | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 39, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1998 Les années 30 - Nouvelles directions de recherche | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 99-117 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Terry Martin, The russification of the RSFSR. This article examines the Soviet state's attempts to deal with their "awkward nationality," the Russians, in the period from 1922 to 1938. Initially, Soviet policy called fora systematic de-emphasis of Russian national identity, on the grounds that their national self-assertion could both provoke non-Russian nationalism and threaten Soviet national unity. Russians, therefore, were denied many of the national institutions, such as a Russian Communist Party, granted to the non-Russian republics. The RSFSR was a compromise half-Russian, half-central institution, which did not function as a defender of Russian national interests. By 1933, the Soviet government had concluded that the de-emphasis of Russian national identity had failed to prevent the emergence of non-Russian nationalism and also provoked an undesirable level of Russian resentment. Therefore, from 1933 to 1938, they promoted a strategic "russification of the RSFSR," which involved an abolition of national minority institutions within the Russian oblasti of the RSFSR, in order to create a purely Russian national space. It was this policy that created a homogeneous Russian core and an ethnically mixed national periphery. This solution was also a compromise, which gave the Russians a place to feel at home nationally, but not a full-fledged ethnic Russian republic which might threaten the Soviet center. This latter development, which Stalin foresaw already in 1922, would occur only in 1990 under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_1252-6576_1998_num_39_1_2515 |
