The ‘Mingrelian Question’: Institutional Resources and the Limits of Soviet Nationality Policy.

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    • Subject Terms:
      EASTERN Europe; SOVIET Union
    • Subject Terms:
      STALIN, Joseph, 1879-1953; BERIIA, L. P. (Lavrentii Pavlovich), 1899-1953
    • Abstract:
      Based on primary source materials from the Georgian Party archive and periodical press, this article examines the conflict between central and local elites in the Soviet Republic of Georgia over whether or not to grant linguistic and territorial rights to residents of one of its regions. The case demonstrates how the promises and aspirations of Soviet nationality policy were actually negotiated and interpreted on the local level in the early years of Soviet power, and how actors attempted to make use of nationality policy in order to mobilise the institutional resources available to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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