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 …

In December of 2007, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine announced that starting in 2008 all
foreign-language movies shown in the country will have to be translated into Ukrainian via …

Polities and organizations use and require particular languages for official business. The
choice of official languages is a vexing issue. Theorists, convinced that a fair language …

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sity Co ww Nelly Bekus STRUGGLE OVER IDENTITY THE OFFICIAL and THE ALTERNATIVE ” ” …

The disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1991 shed entirely new light on the
character of their political systems. There is now a need to re-examine many of the standard …

«Les minorités nationales, en effet, n'étaient pas autre chose, à ses yeux, que d'importantes
communautés “d'individus Révolutionnaires”. Oui, il n'était environné que “d'individus …

The main purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to contexts where two
conceptions of linguistic rights—the rights of languages and the rights of speakers—come …

Using a human rights approach, the book analyses the dynamics in the application of
minority policies for the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in Russia. Despite …

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Rights in the USSR Page 2 Page 3 Federalism and Nationalism The Struggle for Republican …

Nationalism and ethnic pressures contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union, but they
were not the primary cause. A qualified exception to this argument is Russian elite separatist …