Soviet patriotism
Soviet patriotism is the socialist patriotism involving emotional and cultural attachment of the Soviet people to the Soviet Union as their homeland.[1] It is also referred to as Soviet nationalism[2] due to the country's reliance on patriotic propaganda.[3][2][4][5][6]
Manifestation in the Soviet Union
Stalin emphasized a
Nikita Khrushchev moved the Soviet government's policies away from Stalin's reliance on Russian nationalism.[5] Khrushchev promoted the notion of the people of the Soviet Union as being a supranational "Soviet People" that became state policy after 1961.[8] This did not mean that individual ethnic groups lost their separate identities or were to be assimilated but instead promoted a "brotherly alliance" of nations that intended to make ethnic differences irrelevant.[9] At the same time, Soviet education emphasized an "internationalist" orientation.[9] Many non-Russian Soviet people suspected this "Sovietization" to be a cover for a new episode of "Russification", in particular because learning the Russian language was made a mandatory part of Soviet education, and because the Soviet government encouraged ethnic Russians to move outside of Russia and settle in other Soviet "republics".[9]
Efforts to achieve a united Soviet identity were severely damaged by the severe
Socialist patriotism and bourgeois nationalism
Under the outlook of
Contemporary
Contemporary Soviet patriotism
In modern day Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is often said to follow the ideology of Soviet patriotism.[11]
In many post-Soviet states such as Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan and others, there exists
See also
- Neo-Sovietism
- Propaganda in the Soviet Union § Patriotism
- Sovietization
- Soviet imperialism
References
- ^ a b The Current digest of the Soviet press , Volume 39, Issues 1-26. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1987. Pp. 7.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-300-19847-8.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Motyl 2001, pp. 501.
- ^ "В СССР все было самое лучшее! На самом деле нет Главные мифы о "золотом веке" — позднем Советском Союзе".
- ISBN 978-0-674-97582-8.
- ^ Motyl 2001, pp. 501–502.
- ^ a b c d e Motyl 2001, pp. 502.
- ^ Christopher Read. Lenin: a revolutionary life. Digital Printing Edition. Oxon, England, UK; New York, New York, USA: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 115.
- ^ Bozóki & Ishiyama, p245
- ^ "Ностальгия по СССР" [Nostalgia for the USSR] (in Russian). levada.ru. 19 December 2018.
- ^ Maza, Christina (19 December 2018). "Russia vs. Ukraine: More Russians Want the Soviet Union and Communism Back Amid Continued Tensions". Newsweek. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
Bibliography
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