A file containing documents relating to national minorities in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include the fate of the Crimean Tatars; changes in the political leadership of Kazakhstan; a Soviet government decree on the nomadic "peoples of the north"; and coverage of the "nationalities question" in the Soviet media. Other subjects discussed in the file include the lack of knowledge in Western countries regarding the Central Asian peoples; the contradictory attitudes of the people of Tajikistan; the complex issue of the Abkhazian people in Georgia; Georgian opposition to Russification; a rapid rise in Armenian emigration to the United States; and discussion of demographic trends in the Soviet Union, with the suggestion that Central Asian peoples could become more numerous than ethnic Russians. Documents in the file include statistics for Soviet emigration to the United States.
- Collection ID
- FCO28
- Copyright
- The rights holder for the item "The Unique Russian Dilemma" could not be identified. We invite anyone with information about the copyright holder of this item to contact us. The rights holder for the item "The Unique Russian Dilemma" could not be identified. We invite anyone with information about the copyright holder of this item to contact us.
- Countries
- Armenia Byelorussia Georgia Kazakhstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine United States of America
- Department Reference
- ENS 340/2
- Document Type
- Correspondence Legal and Treaty Material Print Publications Reports
- File Reference
- FCO 28/4225
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fco28.004225
- Note
- NATO documents in this file were removed in accordance with international agreements. The following item has been removed from this file due to copyright restrictions: TASG News: Newsletter of the Turkish/Turkic Area Study Group, 10.1979, No. 1.
- Pages
- 88
- Persons Discussed
- Christopher Mallaby Douglas Hurd
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Soviet Union
- Themes
- Domestic Politics Populations and Social Policy
