title: Derusification of Administration in USSR
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metadata.value: Mironov, B. N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T19:22:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T19:22:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Mironov B. N. ‘Derusification of Administration in USSR’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 2, 2021, pp. 436–458.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.209
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33497
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Non-Russian peoples were represented in Russian power structures long before the revolutions of
  1905 and 1917, but less than the democratic norm, which suggests de facto ethnic discrimination in the Empire.
  In Soviet times, the actual ethno-political inequality of peoples in the USSR was gradually overcome, and participation of non-Russians in power structures grew systematically and even accelerated, and the role of Russians
  decreased accordingly. The increase in non-Russians’ share in governmental bodies was almost exclusively due
  to an increase in their ethnic status. By 1979, Russians had a very small majority in all government structures in
  the USSR as a whole, except for the legislative branch, which roughly corresponded to their higher share in the
  country’s population (50.8 % in 1989). However, the situation was different in the Union republics. Only in the
  Russian Federation did all peoples, Russian and non-Russian, participate in governmental bodies in proportion
  to their numbers and in full compliance with the democratic norm. In Belarus, Moldova, and Uzbekistan, titular
  ethnic groups were underrepresented, and Russians were overrepresented. In Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
  Kazakhstan, and Estonia, the representation of Russians was below the democratic norm, and in nine republics it
  was higher, but despite this, they did not have a majority in any union republic. This situation developed as a result
  of the center’s national policy, which aimed at strengthening the authorities with national personnel, accelerating
  the modernization of the Union republics and raising the level of development in the lagging republics to the level
  of the most developed republics.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project no. 20-09-00353 “The
  disintegration of the Soviet Union in the human dimension: An interdisciplinary study”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: disintegration
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Union
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national politicy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: korenizatsiya
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state apparatus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic discrimination
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Derusification of Administration in USSR
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metadata.value: Article
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