Open AccessWords Instruct, Illustrations Lead: The National Question after the October Revolution
Author(s) -
Tomaž Ivešić
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
monitor ish
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1580-688X
pISSN - 1580-7118
DOI - 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.33-49(2018
Subject(s) - nationality , nationalism , national question , marxist philosophy , soviet union , socialism , political science , phenomenon , economic history , political economy , law , sociology , history , communism , philosophy , politics , immigration , epistemology
The paper focuses on the development of Marxist-Leninist views on the phenomenon of nationalism and on the evolution of nations. The germs of the idea of a socialist nationality can be found already before WWI. After the October Revolution, the Stalinist practice of solving the national question was marked by the process of Korenizatsiya: the Bolsheviks emphasised the nationalities in the Soviet Union, hoping that this would accelerate the transition to socialism. This policy was likewise adopted in Yugoslavia during and immediately after WWII.