Soviet Multinational State

MARTHA B.OLCOTT, professor of political science at Colgate University, is a specialist on Soviet nationalities policy. She is the author of The Kazakhs as well as numerous articles on Soviet politics., ANTHONY OLCOTT is assistant professor of Russian at Colgate University, and LUBOMYR HAJDA is affiliated with the Russian Research Center.

• "Preface, 1. Official Soviet Policy and the ""National Problem"" The Constitution of the USSR, Sixty Years of the USSR, Political Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the Twenty-seventh Party Congress, Report of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU at the Nineteenth All Union Conference of the CPSU, The Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Resolution of the Nineteenth All-Union Conference of the CPSU ""On Inter-nationality Relations"" 2. Soviet Scholars and the Study of the ""National Problem"", The Constitutional Basis of Soviet National Statehood, Ethnic Processes in the USSR, Improving National Relations in the USSR, The National Problem and Social Science, 3. Party Politics in the National Regions, In Friendship Lies Our Strength, With a Sound Grasp of the Situation, Speech to the Twenty-seventh Congress of the CPSU, The Constructive Power of Brotherhood, 4. Economic Development and the National Regions, Economic Relations among the Republics, The Basic Guidelines for Economic and Social Development, The Siberian River Diversion Debate, The ""Project of the Century"" from Several Viewpoints, The ""Project of the Century"" Does Not Brook Dilettantism, The Desert-A Strategy for Development, An Editorial: Does Central Asia Need Siberian Water?, Labor Recruitment, A Shortage ... Despite the Availability?, The Baku Floors of Kogalym, The Uzbek SSR State Committee on Labor Is Carrying Out an Organized Resettiement of Families, Amur Oblast Awaits You, Announcement, 5. Ethnodemographic Trends, Processes of Ethnic Change and Population Dynamics among the Peoples of the USSR, The Role of Education and Cultural Perspective in Interpersonal Relations among Nationalities, National Self-awareness, The Interregional Mixing and National Composition of Labor Resources, More Democracy, 6. Language Training and Nationality Relations, Bilingualism, The General and the Particular in the Development of the Linguistic Life of Soviet Society, Factors and Tendencies of the Development of Bilingualism among the Russian Population Living in the Union Republics, To Master Languages More Deeply, How May the Thrkmen Language Be Studied?, 7. Literature and National Culture, The Soviet Multinational Cinema, We Have Come to Act Olzhas Suleimenov, Discussing Aitmatov's Novel A Blizzard Waystation (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years), The Price of Enlightenment from Moscow to Cholpon-Ata, From the 1987 Plenum of the USSR Union of Writers, From the 1988 Plenum of the USSR Union of Writers, 8. Religion and National Culture, The Radio Mouthpiece of the Uniate Clergy, Culture and Religion, Sheikh Yusuf Hamadani, Islam and Politics, Resonance, Preliminary Results of a Thousand-year Experiment, 9. Patriotism and National Exclusivity, Soviet Patriotism, Service in Afghanistan, Portrait Gallery of Internationalist Soldiers, When a Son Returns Home, The Young Reservists' Club, In the Central Committee of the CPSU, In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, Roots, The Crimean Tatars, There Are No Waves Without Foam, The Report of the State Commission, 10A. Nationality Relations in Conflict: The Baltic Republics, The Youth Problem in the Lithuanian Emigration, The Summer 1987 Protests, To an Alien Script, Why the Noise?, The Opinions of Young Rigans, Unsuccessful Provocation, Who Are They?, Position without ""Opposition"", Resolution of the Plenum of the Latvian Union of Writers, Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 10B. Nationality Relations in Conflict: Nagorno-Karabakh, Current Problems in Nationality Relations, M. S. Gorbachev's Appeal to the Workers and the Peoples of Azerbaidzhan and Armenia, On Measures to Accelerate Socioeconomic Development of the Nagorno-Karabakh AO of the Azerbaidzhan SSR in 1988-1995, The Riot in Sumgait, About the Situation in Sumgait, The Situation in Sumgait, Notice, Sumgait City Party Cornmittee Plenum, Sumgait City Soviet Session, In the Central Cornmittee of the Communist Party of Azerbaidzhan, The Strikes in the Nagorno-Karabakh AO, Coverage in the Azerbaidzhan Press: The Economy of the Mountain Region, A Time for Reason and for Sober Decisions, Working Rhythm, Coverage in Armenia: Statement of K. S. Demirehian, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, on Armenian Television, 29 February 1988, Speech by K. S. Demirehian, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, on Armenian Television, 22 March 1988, Coverage in Moscow: How Do Our Countrymen Live?, Emotions and Reason, Who Has Violated Journalistic Ethics?, Meetings after the Demonstrations, ""Reportage"", Continuing Ethnic Violenee in the Nagorno-Karabakh AO, ""A Day Full of Events"", Appeal of the Central Cornmittee of the Communist Party of Azerbaidzhan, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaidzhan SSR, and the Council of Ministers of Azerbaidzhan, In the MVD of the Republie, Today in Nagorno-Karabakh, ""Special Status"" Curfew Declared, Seleeted Bibliography, Appendix: Nationalities of the USSR in 1979, About the Editors"