Seventy years of Leninist nationalities policy, certainly, had not provided one.

Just as damaging has been his chronic inability to implement an effective nationalities policy.

He has been the keynote speaker at a number of international forums on human rights and nationalities policies.

Indeed the evidence, by the late 1970s and early 1980s, suggested that Soviet nationalities policy, so far from reducing national self-consciousness, might actually be increasing it.

Tajik script was first Latinised in the 1920s under the then Soviet nationality policy.

Meticulously researched, the book is practically a day-by-day account of changes in Soviet nationality policy and national dissent for almost 80 years.

He has also written about Soviet nationalities policy and about Ukrainian national identity from the late nineteenth century to the present.

In some historical analyses, it has also been noticed, although less explicitly, that nationality policy of local German elites was also deliberately different.

The nationalities policy was formulated by the Bolshevik party in 1913, four years before they came to power in Russia.

Immediately after the war, major immigration projects were undertaken, labeled "brotherly aid under Stalinist nationality policies".