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- 1930.0 (dbd:second)
- [Soviet] reasoning can be summarized [...] the nationalism of the oppressed non-Russian peoples expresses not only masked class protest, but also legitimate national grievances against the oppressive great-power chauvinism of the dominant Russian nationality. Therefore, neither nationalism nor national identity can be unequivocally condemned as reactionary. (en)
- the merger of Marxism-Leninism and Russian nationalist-conservatism continues a trend that had been taking place in Soviet Russian communism since Stalin or even since the early 1920s. (en)
- Russian Cultural Nationalism After Stalin (en)
- The status of the Russian nationality was raised dramatically in the period from 1933 to 1938, along with the status of the RSFSR. This development threatened the foundations of the Affirmative Action Empire [...] (en)
- Sergei Maksudov and William Taubman write that the Soviet Union rested on three main pillars"ideology, dictatorship and nationalism" against the three pillars of tsarist Russiaorthodoxy, autocracy, and narodnost [national spirit], thus, giving place to nationalism as a significant premise of state ideology during the Soviet time (en)
- While the early Bolsheviks claimed to be internationalist, committed to a worldwide revolution of the proletariat, in today's Russia basic component of communist ideology is the recognition of the Russian people's special ethnic identity and their mission to unite and lead the diverse peoples of Eurasia down a distinctly non-Western path of development. This broad appeal to Russian nationalism in its traditionalthat is, ethnic, and more overtly, imperialforms might at first glance seem to be antithetical to the Marxism's traditional emphasis on internationalism and Lenin's own efforts to suppress "Great Russian chauvinism" (en)
- [Stalin] called the Russians "the most industrial, the most active, and the most Soviet of all nations in our country." [...] In a May 1933 speech in the Kremlin, Stalin again complimented the Russians as "the major nationality of the world; they first raised the flag of the soviets in opposition to the rest of the world. The Russian nationit is the most talented nation in the world." [...] Significantly, all these remarks were either private or addressed to limited elite audiences... since they contradicted the spirit of the Affirmative Action Empire. [...] By 1938, the Soviet government was propagating an extraordinarily crude essentialist Russian nationalism. (en)
- Ian Bremmer calls this matryoshka-nationalism which implies the existence of nations inside a larger nation as a specific phenomenon of soviet nationalism. It gave birth to all national movements (en)
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