Official Ethnology in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia in The Service of Russian Nationality Policy
Journal: Cargo Journal
Year: 2025

The policy of Russia towards the peoples within its borders follows a consistent trajectory. The strategic goal of this policy is to neutralise the potential for the independent national development of those peoples, to transform them into loyal Russian subjects, and to turn the whole Russian realm into a homogeneous entity, while paying lip service to its multiethnicity. Not only was this the policy of the last Russian tsars but, contrary to popular myth, it was also the original view of Russia