National Minorities, Propoganda And Culture 1917-41 Flashcards
What did Lenin promise to minorities
Self determination
How did Lenin give nationalities self determination
Decree on nationalities 1917
What areas wanted independence
Finland
Ukraine
Georgia
Who became independent during the civil war
Finland and the Baltic states
Where did Stalin use heavy handed methods
Georgia
After the civil war what was formally established
The USSR
In the NEP which groups rights were actually protected? What was abolished? What was accepted?
Rights of soviet Jews were protected
All anti Semitic laws were abolished
Yiddish accepted as a language
What method did Stalin use to try and stop minorities being able to organise
Internal deportations
Example of internal deportations
Finns and Poles deported from eastern areas of Belorussia and the Ukraine
Who faced internal deportations in 1937
Koreans deported from the east of the USSR and Kurds from the Caucuses
As war became closer what did his propaganda focus on
A nationalistic Russian message
What became compulsory in 1938
Learning Russian became compulsory in all schools
There was a rise of what in the 1930s
Anti semitism
After invading Poland in 1939 how many more Jews came under Russian control
2 million
Examples of Lenin’s phrases in 1917
All power to the soviets
Peace, Bread, Land
