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During the Stalin era and after the official formula ran that “the USSR has finally solved the nationalities question inherited from pre-revolutionary times”. Writers as well as historians had to hew to this ideological line. The satirists Il’f and Petrov, touring the United States in the 1930s, were asked by someone: “How is the Jewish problem being solved in the USSR?” They answered: “It doesn’t have to be solved. We do have Jews but we don’t have a problem.”
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© 2001 Alter L. Litvin and John L. H. Keep
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Litvin, A.L. (2001). The Nationalities Problem. In: Keep, J.L.H. (eds) Writing History in Twentieth-Century Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403913890_8
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