F Sinitsyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 137355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Sinitsyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | F |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinitsyn |
| SIGNATURE | SINITSYN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of World History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2299-204X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Buridan’s Ass” of Soviet Language Policy
The author considers the process of creating a new Korean writing system in the USSR in the 1930s and reveals the features of this activity carried out within the framework of Soviet language construction. They reveal the reasons, courses, and results of the reform of the Korean writing system, as well as the composition of the participants in its implementation. The study is based on the analysis of the documents identified in the Archive of the…
Turkish ‘Sun Language Theory
The ‘Sun Language Theory’ was part of the language reforms in Turkey. Its official proclamation took place at the Third Linguistic Congress held in İstanbul in August 1936. The assessments available in historiography of the Soviet contribution to the creation of the ‘Sun Language Theory’ and the Soviet reaction to its proclamation indicate the ideas of the Soviet scientist Nikolai Marr as the most important contribution to this theory. Also, ther…
A Compromise Doomed to Failure
The ‘Greek language problem’ in the USSR represented a special ‘case of complex ethno-linguistic identification,’ because in the Soviet Union, in addition to Katharevousa and Dimotiki, several dialects (languages) were used as a spoken language. In May 1926, at the first All-Union Meeting on Cultural Building among the Greeks of the USSR it was decided to abandon the use of Katharevousa. However, the reform of 1926 created the ground for a very b…
The Soviet Experiment on Latinization of the Russian Alphabet, 1919–1931
Introduction. The issue of writing reform has been actualized in recent decades, including in the post-Soviet countries. Among other things, there are calls to translate the Russian writing into Latin. Methods and materials. Scientific works do not fully clarify all the political characteristics of “Russian Latinization”. The sources used in the research presented in this article include published materials and documents from the collections of a…
Foreign Policy Aspects of the Soviet Latinization Campaign, 1920s — 1930s
In the 1920s and 1930s, the foreign policy factor played an important role in the language situation in the Soviet Union. The language policy of the USSR was aimed at solving the existing problems in the language sphere. As part of the implementation of this policy, the translation of writing into Latin has begun in many regions of the country. The Soviet “Latinizers” claimed the “worldwide status” of the Latin alphabet. On the one hand, this ide…
Political and Legal Problems of the Soviet–Yugoslav Military Co-Operation During the World War II
The first, fundamental step of Soviet-Yugoslav military co-operation during the Second World War was the formation of the 1st Yugoslav Rifle Brigade. It was made on the own initiative of the Soviet leadership, without the participation of the any Yugoslav authorities. The political state of this military unit from the very beginning was unstable due to the obviously low loyalty of most of the personnel. The Soviet authorities chose a cautious, so…
Political Aspects of the Creation of Terminology for National Languages in the USSR, 1920s — 1930s
In the early 1920s, the language situation in the multinational Soviet Union was difficult. Many languages did not have a literary form or even a written language, and suffered from the presence of multiple dialects. Terminological activity in the USSR in the 1920s was very active. In the presence of many approaches to the creation of terminology, a struggle between their supporters unfolded in the 1920s. In addition, the practice of creating ter…
The Uniform Northern Alphabet
Единый северный алфавит»: противостояние латиницы и кириллицы на советском Севере, 1920-1930-е годы А Н Н О Т А Ц И Я .Латинизацию письменности народов Севера можно признать одной из наиболее ошибочных кампаний в череде экспериментов по созданию новой письменности в СССР, развернутых в 1920-1930-е гг.Она являлась проявлением огульного «латинизаторского» подхода, характерного для советской практики языкового строительства того времени.Этот подход …
Czechoslovak Military Units in the USSR During the Great Patriotic War
Introduction. The article is devoted to the identification and analysis of political and legal problems that arose during the formation on the territory of the USSR and the combat use of Czechoslovak military units in the Great Patriotic War. Methods and materials. The methodological basis of the research presented in the article is the principles of scientific objectivity and historicism, as well as general and special methods typical of histori…
Chinese Writing
Attempts to translate Chinese writing from a hieroglyphic basis to a phonetic one have been known since the 19th century. In the 1920s in the Soviet Union, for political, “technical” and other reasons, a course was taken to transfer hieroglyphic writing to a Latin basis. This process also affected the Chinese language. The second reason for the course towards the romanization of Chinese writing was the hope of the USSR authorities for the develop…
Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Military Units Created in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War
Based on the example of the history of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps and the 1st Yugoslav Infantry Brigade created on the territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, there are revealed the peculiarities of the effectiveness of “foreign” military units on the territory of a third country. To date, these issues have not been sufficiently studied in historical science. The source base used in the research includes both published and unpu…
The Creation of Dungan Writing in the USSR
In the 1920s – 1930s, from 20 thousand to 30 thousand Dungans lived in the Central Asian republics of the USSR. A course was taken to create a Dungan alphabet based on Latin graphics. In 1928, the Dungan alphabet was adopted on the ‘all-Soviet’ basis. However, in the early 1930s, it was decided that it was necessary to change the Dungan alphabet – primarily because of the need to solve the problem of ‘unification’ of this alphabet on a ‘common So…
Czechoslovak Military Units Formed in the USSR During the Second World War
The article is based on documents of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It focuses on the stages of the formation, completion and combat use of the Czechoslovak military units created in the USSR during the Second World War. The special attention is paid to the identification of the trends and problems of the history of these formations. These topics w…
Forming The Consumer Society in the USSR
Introduction. In the 1960s, the formation of a consumer society began in the USSR. At the same time, the differences in living standard and quality of life between the segments of the population became more and more noticeable. These phenomena were in conflict with the Soviet ideology – the basis of the political system of the USSR. However, the problem of the consumer society formation in the USSR and the associated challenges to the Soviet syst…
“Two Socialisms”
In the 20th century, the Nordic countries implemented the concept of a social state. The article analyzes the attitude to the theory and practice of the “Scandinavian model” (ideology, political situation, economic and foreign policy of the Scandinavian Social Democrats, as well as their implementation of the concept of the “welfare state”) of representatives of state authorities and management, as well as the scientific community of the USSR in …
External Challenges to Soviet Ideology in the Second Half of the 1960s and in the 1970s
The Soviet Union's foreign policy challenges of the 1960s and 1970s had an ideological aspect to them. Contradictions between Soviet Communism and Eastern European socialist models of development became more pronounced. Eastern European socialist countries began to emphasize the variety of models for “building socialism” and offered their own theories, not sanctioned by Moscow, of the construction of socialism in other European countries. Certain…
The Challenges to Social Control in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, 1964-1982
This article examines the development of social control in the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, who was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1964 to 1982. Historians have largely neglected this question, especially with regard to its evolution and efficiency. Research is based on sources in the Russian State Archive of Modern History (RGANI), the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) and the Moscow Central State Ar…
In This Issue
Transboundary nomadism in the USSR in the 1920s
Abstarct: In the context of the history of migration processes among nomadic peoples, the present article studies transboundary nomadism between the USSR and neighboring countries in the 1920s as well as the Soviet policy on these processes. The author discusses the border areas of the east and south of the USSR and such neighboring states as China, Mongolia, Tuva, Afghanistan, and Persia. The article is written on a broad source base, which incl…
Ethnic and Territorial Aspects of the Soviet-Romanian Relations in 1918—1945
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Ethnic and Territorial Aspects of the Soviet-Romanian Relations in 1918—1945
Transboundary nomadism in the USSR in the 1920s
Abstarct: In the context of the history of migration processes among nomadic peoples, the present article studies transboundary nomadism between the USSR and neighboring countries in the 1920s as well as the Soviet policy on these processes. The author discusses the border areas of the east and south of the USSR and such neighboring states as China, Mongolia, Tuva, Afghanistan, and Persia. The article is written on a broad source base, which incl…
In This Issue
Forming The Consumer Society in the USSR
Introduction. In the 1960s, the formation of a consumer society began in the USSR. At the same time, the differences in living standard and quality of life between the segments of the population became more and more noticeable. These phenomena were in conflict with the Soviet ideology – the basis of the political system of the USSR. However, the problem of the consumer society formation in the USSR and the associated challenges to the Soviet syst…
“Two Socialisms”
In the 20th century, the Nordic countries implemented the concept of a social state. The article analyzes the attitude to the theory and practice of the “Scandinavian model” (ideology, political situation, economic and foreign policy of the Scandinavian Social Democrats, as well as their implementation of the concept of the “welfare state”) of representatives of state authorities and management, as well as the scientific community of the USSR in …
External Challenges to Soviet Ideology in the Second Half of the 1960s and in the 1970s
The Soviet Union's foreign policy challenges of the 1960s and 1970s had an ideological aspect to them. Contradictions between Soviet Communism and Eastern European socialist models of development became more pronounced. Eastern European socialist countries began to emphasize the variety of models for “building socialism” and offered their own theories, not sanctioned by Moscow, of the construction of socialism in other European countries. Certain…
The Challenges to Social Control in Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, 1964-1982
This article examines the development of social control in the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, who was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1964 to 1982. Historians have largely neglected this question, especially with regard to its evolution and efficiency. Research is based on sources in the Russian State Archive of Modern History (RGANI), the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) and the Moscow Central State Ar…
Czechoslovak Military Units Formed in the USSR During the Second World War
The article is based on documents of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It focuses on the stages of the formation, completion and combat use of the Czechoslovak military units created in the USSR during the Second World War. The special attention is paid to the identification of the trends and problems of the history of these formations. These topics w…
Czechoslovak Military Units in the USSR During the Great Patriotic War
Introduction. The article is devoted to the identification and analysis of political and legal problems that arose during the formation on the territory of the USSR and the combat use of Czechoslovak military units in the Great Patriotic War. Methods and materials. The methodological basis of the research presented in the article is the principles of scientific objectivity and historicism, as well as general and special methods typical of histori…
Chinese Writing
Attempts to translate Chinese writing from a hieroglyphic basis to a phonetic one have been known since the 19th century. In the 1920s in the Soviet Union, for political, “technical” and other reasons, a course was taken to transfer hieroglyphic writing to a Latin basis. This process also affected the Chinese language. The second reason for the course towards the romanization of Chinese writing was the hope of the USSR authorities for the develop…
Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Military Units Created in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War
Based on the example of the history of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps and the 1st Yugoslav Infantry Brigade created on the territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, there are revealed the peculiarities of the effectiveness of “foreign” military units on the territory of a third country. To date, these issues have not been sufficiently studied in historical science. The source base used in the research includes both published and unpu…
The Creation of Dungan Writing in the USSR
In the 1920s – 1930s, from 20 thousand to 30 thousand Dungans lived in the Central Asian republics of the USSR. A course was taken to create a Dungan alphabet based on Latin graphics. In 1928, the Dungan alphabet was adopted on the ‘all-Soviet’ basis. However, in the early 1930s, it was decided that it was necessary to change the Dungan alphabet – primarily because of the need to solve the problem of ‘unification’ of this alphabet on a ‘common So…
Political and Legal Problems of the Soviet–Yugoslav Military Co-Operation During the World War II
The first, fundamental step of Soviet-Yugoslav military co-operation during the Second World War was the formation of the 1st Yugoslav Rifle Brigade. It was made on the own initiative of the Soviet leadership, without the participation of the any Yugoslav authorities. The political state of this military unit from the very beginning was unstable due to the obviously low loyalty of most of the personnel. The Soviet authorities chose a cautious, so…
Political Aspects of the Creation of Terminology for National Languages in the USSR, 1920s — 1930s
In the early 1920s, the language situation in the multinational Soviet Union was difficult. Many languages did not have a literary form or even a written language, and suffered from the presence of multiple dialects. Terminological activity in the USSR in the 1920s was very active. In the presence of many approaches to the creation of terminology, a struggle between their supporters unfolded in the 1920s. In addition, the practice of creating ter…
The Uniform Northern Alphabet
Единый северный алфавит»: противостояние латиницы и кириллицы на советском Севере, 1920-1930-е годы А Н Н О Т А Ц И Я .Латинизацию письменности народов Севера можно признать одной из наиболее ошибочных кампаний в череде экспериментов по созданию новой письменности в СССР, развернутых в 1920-1930-е гг.Она являлась проявлением огульного «латинизаторского» подхода, характерного для советской практики языкового строительства того времени.Этот подход …
A Compromise Doomed to Failure
The ‘Greek language problem’ in the USSR represented a special ‘case of complex ethno-linguistic identification,’ because in the Soviet Union, in addition to Katharevousa and Dimotiki, several dialects (languages) were used as a spoken language. In May 1926, at the first All-Union Meeting on Cultural Building among the Greeks of the USSR it was decided to abandon the use of Katharevousa. However, the reform of 1926 created the ground for a very b…
The Soviet Experiment on Latinization of the Russian Alphabet, 1919–1931
Introduction. The issue of writing reform has been actualized in recent decades, including in the post-Soviet countries. Among other things, there are calls to translate the Russian writing into Latin. Methods and materials. Scientific works do not fully clarify all the political characteristics of “Russian Latinization”. The sources used in the research presented in this article include published materials and documents from the collections of a…
Foreign Policy Aspects of the Soviet Latinization Campaign, 1920s — 1930s
In the 1920s and 1930s, the foreign policy factor played an important role in the language situation in the Soviet Union. The language policy of the USSR was aimed at solving the existing problems in the language sphere. As part of the implementation of this policy, the translation of writing into Latin has begun in many regions of the country. The Soviet “Latinizers” claimed the “worldwide status” of the Latin alphabet. On the one hand, this ide…
“Buridan’s Ass” of Soviet Language Policy
The author considers the process of creating a new Korean writing system in the USSR in the 1930s and reveals the features of this activity carried out within the framework of Soviet language construction. They reveal the reasons, courses, and results of the reform of the Korean writing system, as well as the composition of the participants in its implementation. The study is based on the analysis of the documents identified in the Archive of the…
Turkish ‘Sun Language Theory
The ‘Sun Language Theory’ was part of the language reforms in Turkey. Its official proclamation took place at the Third Linguistic Congress held in İstanbul in August 1936. The assessments available in historiography of the Soviet contribution to the creation of the ‘Sun Language Theory’ and the Soviet reaction to its proclamation indicate the ideas of the Soviet scientist Nikolai Marr as the most important contribution to this theory. Also, ther…
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