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Observers have often remarked upon the contrast between the stability of the Soviet Union in the Brezhnev era of the 1960s and 1970s and the bubbling cauldron of discontent that confronted Gorbachev in the late 1980s. This is nowhere more apparent than in the case of the ‘national question’, a shorthand expression which is meant to cover relations between the Russians and the non-Russians, between the non-Russians and the central authorities, and finally between different groups of non-Russians.
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L. Hajda and M. Beissinger, The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society (Boulder, Col: Westview Press, 1990 ).
H. R. Huttenbach (ed.), Soviet Nationality Policies. Ruling Ethnic Groups in the USSR ( London: Mansell, 1990 ).
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Fowkes, B. (2002). The National Question in the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev: Policy and Response. In: Bacon, E., Sandle, M. (eds) Brezhnev Reconsidered. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501089_4
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