1920s – mid 1930s

 

	“Indigenisation” (“korenizatsia”): “Ukranianisation”, “Byelorussianisation”, etc.
	Tolerance of non-Russian languages and cultures
	Acceleration of nation building
	Spread of “national communism”

 

Stalin’s “revolution from above” of 1930s

 

	Destroyed traditional way of life of some ethnic groups
	Froze indigenisation and nation building
	Sponsored official patriotism with Russian flavour
	Resettled entire peoples

 

Post-Stalin period

 

	Return to indigenisation and more liberal cultural policies of 1920s
	“A new historic community of people – the Soviet nation”
	Revival of nation building
	Rise of national intellectual and political elites
	Growth of ethnic self-consciousness and identity
	Rise of underground nationalist movements

 

 

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