Internationalism or Russification?

Internationalism or Russification?
Author	Ivan Dziuba
Publication date	1968

Internationalism or Russification? (Ukrainian: Інтернаціоналізм чи русифікація?) is a book by Ukrainian writer and social activist Ivan Dziuba. It was written in late 1965 as a supplement to a letter sent to the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Petro Shelest, in defense of the numerous Ukrainian writers arrested during that year. It was published in Great Britain in 1968.^[1]^[2]

Summary

In the work Internationalism or Russification?, written under the influence of those events, Dziuba analyzed from a Marxist position the national and cultural policy of the Soviet Union in Ukraine. The author sent his work to the first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Petro Shelest, and to the head of the Ukrainian SSR government, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and its Russian translation – to the leadership of Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

In Internationalism or Russification? Dziuba argued that during Joseph Stalin's rule the CPSU had moved to the positions of Russian chauvinism. The author built his argumentation largely on quotations from the works of Vladimir Lenin and party documents of the 1920s. He believed that the Russification policy of the CPSU, particularly in Ukraine, is contradictory to the fundamental interests of the Ukrainian people and other ethnic minorities. He accordingly contended that the solution lay in returning to Lenin's principles of national policy and of Korenizatsiia.

References

^ Toma, Peter A. (1969). "Review of Internationalism or Russification?". The Western Political Quarterly. 22 (1): 203–205. doi:10.2307/446162. ISSN 0043-4078. JSTOR 446162.
^ Sheehy, Ann (1969). "Review of Beyond the Urals: Economic Developments in Soviet Asia; The Formation of the Soviet Central Asian Republics: A Study in Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1917–1936; Internationalism or Russification? A Study in the Soviet Nationalities Problem". International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944–). 45 (1): 152–153. doi:10.2307/2612670. ISSN 0020-5850. JSTOR 2612670.

Дзюба І. М. Інтернаціоналізм чи русифікація? Переднє слово
Іван Дзюба «Інтернаціоналізм чи русифікація?» The book on litopys.org.ua (in Ukrainian)

[1] Toma, Peter A. (1969). "Review of Internationalism or Russification?". The Western Political Quarterly. 22 (1): 203–205. doi:10.2307/446162. ISSN 0043-4078. JSTOR 446162.

[2] Sheehy, Ann (1969). "Review of Beyond the Urals: Economic Developments in Soviet Asia; The Formation of the Soviet Central Asian Republics: A Study in Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1917–1936; Internationalism or Russification? A Study in the Soviet Nationalities Problem". International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944–). 45 (1): 152–153. doi:10.2307/2612670. ISSN 0020-5850. JSTOR 2612670.

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