Л.С. Гатагова

THE ERA OF LATE STALINISM: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS EXPERIENCE (1945–1953)

Authors

Л.С. Гатагова

Keywords:

stalinism, ethnopolitics, sovietization program, party elites, supraethnic community, primordialism, identity, soviet universalism

Abstract

The article is devoted to tracing the evolution of Soviet ethnopolitics in the period of late Stalinism from a historiographical perspective. It analyzes the post-war trends of the Kremlin's ethno-political course toward national republics and peripheral peoples. Despite all the minor differences in views within the scientific community, the dominant point of view on the topic is that the ruling circles approach to ethno-national problems was based on an impersonal, extremely mechanistic and functionalist basis. The analysis of key party decisions, as well as their subsequent interpretations by researchers, seems relevant due to the established view inside the political circles and, partly in the scientific community, according to which the national question became one of the basic causes for the collapse of the USSR

THE ERA OF LATE STALINISM: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS EXPERIENCE (1945–1953)