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For Russians, having an empire was natural. For centuries, well before the rise of nationalism as a political ideology, many peoples were subject to Russian rule. Some had been assimilated relatively peacefully, others with a great deal of suffering and loss of life. Russification of nations whose cultures differed — that is, the imposition of the Russian language and cultural norms and the Orthodox religion, was frequent.
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Robert Conquest, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities (London: Sphere, 1972)
and Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Victor Zaslaysky, ‘Success and Collapse: Traditional Soviet Nationality Policy’, in Ian Bremner and Ray Taras (eds), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), chapter 2.
Paul Goble, ‘Imperial Endgame: Nationality Problems and the Soviet Future’, in Harley D. Balzer (ed.), Five Years That Shook The World: Gorbachev’s Unfinished Revolution (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1991), pp. 91–104.
Isaiah Berlin, ‘The Bent Twig: On the Rise of Nationalism’, in The Crooked Timber of Humanity (London: Fontana, 1990), pp. 238–63.
See in particular Vicki L. Hesli and Joel D. Barkan, ‘The Center-Periphery Debate: Pressures for Devolution Within the Republics’, in Arthur H. Miller, William M. Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli (eds), Public Opinion and Regime Change: The New Politics of Post-Soviet Societies (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1993), pp. 124–52;
Vladimir Rukavishnikov, ‘Sotsial’no-politicheskaya situatsiya i obshchestvennoe mnenie’, Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, 11 (1992), p. 56.
See Lev Gudkov, ‘The Disintegration of the USSR and Russians in the Republics’, Journal of Communist Studies, 9, 1 (1993), pp. 75–87, which discusses the attitudes of Russians living in other former Soviet republics.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rebuilding Russia (London: Harper Collins, 1991).
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Wyman, M. (1997). Russians and Non-Russians on the Collapse of the USSR. In: Public Opinion in Postcommunist Russia. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373631_6
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