Pain E.A. (2025) On the Genesis of Nationalism in the USSR: Ethnopolitical Processes of the Era of the Khrushchev Thaw. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’, no. 4, pp. 34–47. DOI: 10.31857 ...

Abstract

The article continues the author’s series of publications devoted to the theory and history of national relations in the Soviet Union and Russia. The main types of ethnopolitical tensions during the Khrushchev thaw are described as preceding the emergence of nationalism as an organized political force in a significant part of the territory of the Soviet Union. Ethnopolitical unrest without signs of ideological nationalism is compared with the processes occurring in the centers of pronounced nationalist movements (in the Baltics and Western Ukraine). The causes and transformation of spontaneous ethnopolitical protests into politically formed nationalism are characterized, and the expansion of its geography after theKhrushchev thaw is noted.