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

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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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Journal ID (publisher-id): applab

Title: Slavic Review

Abbreviated Title: Slavic rev.

Publisher: JSTOR

ISSN (Print): 0037-6779

ISSN (Electronic): 2325-7784

Publication date Created: 1994

Publication date (Print): January 2017

Volume: 53

Issue: 02

Pages: 414-452

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DOI: 10.2307/2501300

SO-VID: a2b65cab-1d47-45b3-8e4d-61c5291dfc3b

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