The non-Russian nationalities define their agendas in light of their perception of the role of Russians in the Soviet state.

These groups included Tatars, Turks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Armenians, as well as other non-Russian nationalities.

Nicholas I then pushed for Russian nationalism by suppressing non-Russian nationalities and religions.

In late December 1922, Lenin accepted that both Ordzhonikidze and Stalin were guilty of the imposition of Great Russian nationalism upon non-Russian nationalities.

But the greatest weakness of perestroika - its Achilles' heel - is the problem of non-Russian nationalities within the Soviet Union.

People's Commissariat of Nationalities (abbreviation transliterated as Narkomnats) was the Government of the Soviet Union body set up to deal with non-Russian nationalities.

Growing numbers of protests by non-Russian nationalities are equally unsettling.

Nor was there much evidence elsewhere, even before the open disturbances of the late 1980s, that non-Russian nationalities were merging their identity into that of a greater Soviet community.

Refusal to do military service was rife, especially among non-Russian nationalities.

Sometimes this names were given for child, that born in intermarriage with another non-Russian nationality.