Nationalism in the USSR

Question 1

1. Who did Republican govts in the Soviet states tend to be dominated by?
2. Who usually dominated the Secret Police and army?
3. What % of people in prison or subjected to repressive psychiatry by 1975 were nationalists?

Answer 1

1. People of those Republics.
2. Russians.
3. Around 50%.

Question 2

1. From 1945, Soviet citizens were encouraged to take ____ in the fact that the USSR was a global superpower?
2. However, what was the attitude towards Soviet nationalism in many of the Republics?
   - Why?
3. What did this mean for Gorbachev?

Answer 2

1. Pride.
2. Unpopular.
   - It adopted an assumption of Russian superiority and the inferiority of other cultures.
3. Did not understand the weakness of Soviet nationalism.

Question 3

1. What did economic decline in the 1980s do to the union?
2. What increased under Brezhnev?
   - Give an example of this.

Answer 3

1. Undermined the union.
2. Tolerance of nationalism of individual republics.
   - Each republic had the right to educate in their own language, higher representation of Turkic people in C.C and Politburo.