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  • Common exposure to the economic crisis may have reduced tensions between Russians and the non-Russian native populations.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • It seemed only natural that non-Russian nationalities, imprisoned for decades within the Soviet police state, would, when given a chance, race to liberate themselves.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The Union, created in 1922, was structured as a federation in which many non-Russian nationalities had their own ethnically defined units.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • This policy of indigenization korenizatsiya created non-Russian, educated middle classes that themselves helped block the growth of an independent nationalist counter-elite.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Many of the ethnically Russian residents of the non-Russian republics also came to favor secession.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The demands made at protests changed in waves between 1987 and 1990, as shown in Figure 5.1, from human rights and political freedom to the preservation of historical monuments and respect for non-Russian languages and cultures, to outright secession from the USSR.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • One of the ideas discussed by some of the members of the committee was to entice foreign cash by putting Russia's own money into a fund with non-Russian investors, particularly private-equity firms.

    Senior Bankers in U.S. to Advise Russia Liz Rappaport 2011

  • Soviet fighting morale in an offensive war would have been pretty low, especially among the non-Russian troops.

    Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy 2010

  • Although named in honor of smaller non-Russian ethnicities, the autonomous okrugs had no additional rights and were subordinate to both the federal government and the surrounding kray.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Later, policies were devised to incorporate and coopt non-Russian nationalities, while keeping them strictly subordinate to the central leadership.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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