Why not love our language and our culture?” National rights and citizenship in Khrushchev's Soviet Union

Bibliographic Data

ID11048701
AuthorsKrista A Goff (University of Miami, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume43
Issue1
Pages27-44
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905992.2014.972351
OpenAlexW2066529039
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

This paper highlights campaigns for national rights among two non-titular communities in the Soviet Union and places them in local historical contexts. Drawing on archival sources and oral history interviews, the author not only delves into the campaigns themselves, but also explores broader debates about the nature of Khrushchev's Thaw and Soviet citizenship, which was far from an empty concept in the Khrushchev era. Petitioners invoked discourses that indicate both an awareness of national rights and an expectation of the state's obligation to protect them. Oral history interviews with surviving petitioners and community members support the notion that petition language can serve as a reflection of how petitioners viewed their place in Soviet society and interpreted the Soviet citizen contract

Citizenship · Obligation · Oral history · Petitioner · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Witness · Anthropology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Law · Soviet and Russian History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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