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Soviet affirmative action for ethnic minorities

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Marginal Revolution

Feb 28

The author is Terry Martin of Harvard, and the subtitle is Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. This is an excellent book for understanding how some of the current Russia vs. Ukraine issues are rooted in Bolshevik times. Here is one excerpt:

And:

The goal of course was to limit the emergence of non-Russian nationalism, not to boost the fortunes of the ethnic and national minorities themselves.

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