National Minorities

Question 1

1926 Soviet Jews

Answer 1

Given a special homeland which was in part of the far eastern province
(it became an autonomous province in 1934 with 25% of the region’s population being Jewish)

Question 2

Ethnic groups

Answer 2

Stalinist policy veered towards less tolerance of the ethnic groups.
He aimed for a single Soviet identity

Question 3

Leaders of republics

Answer 3

If they refused to obey orders from Moscow, they were purged and labelled ‘bourgeois nationalists’

Question 4

Russian nationalism

Answer 4

Now inflicted throughout the empire; the Russian language became compulsory in all schools from 1938 and was also the only language used in the Red Army.

Question 5

Deportation

Answer 5

In the 1930s Stalin began the deportation of non-Russians
1929-31 many Finns were deported followed by Poles from Belorussia and the Ukraine

1937, Koreans in the Far East of Russian

With the annexation of eastern Poland, 1.45 million people were deported between 1939 and 1941.

Question 6

Jews

Answer 6

suffered with anti-semitism being evident in rural areas as part of the hunt for saboteurs.

When eastern Poland and the Baltic republics were annexed, 1939-40, 2 million Jews became part of the USSA.
Many Jewish religious leaders were arrested.

Question 7

Stalinist state’s official stance of racial discrimination

Answer 7

Officially opposed it.

Welcomed inter-racial marriage as a way of assimilating different national groups