Ideological discourses in the Bolsheviks’ narratives and Udmurt media in the 1920s and 1930s
Journal: Uralica Helsingiensia
Year: 2025

In this article, I examine the ideological discourses of the Bolsheviks regarding the national policy towards the peoples of the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s, and I investigate how these discourses were reflected in the Udmurt media, particularly in the journal Kenesh, later renamed Molot in 1935. I employ the method of critical discourse analysis (Wodak 2014, 2009) to explore how the discourses of “us” and “them” were constructed, the attributes they were associated with, the modalit