THE POLICY OF KORENIZATION AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL POLITICAL ELITES IN THE UNION REPUBLICS OF THE USSR: THE EXPERIENCE OF CENTRAL ASIA
https://doi.org/10.48137/23116412_2025_4_120
Abstract
The article examines the influence of the korenization policy of the 1920s and 1930s on the formation of national political elites in the Union republics of the USSR. Based on a comparative analysis of the Central Asian experience, regional features of the involvement of national cadres in party and state structures are identified. It is shown that the combination of linguistic, personnel, and educational components of korenization contributed to the institutionalization of national elites, ensuring the controlled integration of the republics into the Soviet system.
About the Author
A. A. Shirokozhukhov
Russian State Social University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Shirokozhukhov Alexander A. – Postgraduate student
Moscow
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Shirokozhukhov A.A. THE POLICY OF KORENIZATION AS A FACTOR IN THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL POLITICAL ELITES IN THE UNION REPUBLICS OF THE USSR: THE EXPERIENCE OF CENTRAL ASIA. Post–Soviet Continent. 2025;(4):120-130. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.48137/23116412_2025_4_120
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