A Study Of The Ethnic Problems In The Soviet Union

It is well known that most of the world countries are composed of many ethnic groups, and the ethnic relations directly impacts on the stability and development of the country. So the national question has attracted all the countries attention in the world. Especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the national questions of the Soviet Union have paid high attention to the study of annotation in the world. The Ussr is a multi-national state which are composed of more than120ethnic groups, and there is a lot of different among various ethnic’s population distribution, language and culture, religious belief and the level of economic development, but the contradiction between the Soviet Nationalities is more complex. Therefor the Soviet Union regarded as being one of the most sophisticated national ethnic relations in the world.In face of complex and diverse ethnic problems, the Soviet Union leaders have worked tirelessly toexplore a development path suited to its national con ditions, Lenin took the correct national policy to realize the equality of all ethnic groups, promote national unity, but beginning from Stalin Soviet national policy has gradually deviated from the thought of Lenin, and comes towards the Russian Principle. The highly centralized management system seriously hindered the development of the ethnic minority areas, the Forced migration of ethnic politics increased the contradictions between the Nationalities, Mandatory implementation of Russian, suppress the development of minority language culture serious bruise ethnic pride. The error of national policy is leading to the intensification of ethnic conflicts. Until Gorbachev been in power. In order to ease the contradiction between national, he carried out the openness democratization reform. But his reform measures will not solve the ethnic problem, but make the ethnic conflicts intensified until the outbreak of the crisis of the nation. In1990s, the dual effect of domestic national movement and international separatism. The Soviet Union eventually broke out.The reason of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in addition to error national policy cannot be separated from Soviet long-standing great Russian nationalism and local nationalism。The surge in Great Russian nationalism is Discrimination against and oppression of non-Russian minority groups, serious harm the interests of national minority, and invisible exacerbate conflicts between different ethnic groups. The local nationalism is sticky contradictions in Great Russian nationalism. Local nationalism began to revolt against the Great Russian nationalism but eventually evolved into the national separatism. Because the Soviet Government has no accurately understanding of the errors of two kinds of thoughts, it is casing the national crisis. So in dealing with ethnic problems we must resolutely resist the nationalism and ethnic separatist forces.This paper is divided into four sections in addition to the foreword. The first chapter introduces the complexity of the ethnic composition of the Soviet Union and the diversity of ethnic conflicts. The second chapter of soviet nationalities policy made a brief period, is to analyze the influence of the wrong ethnic policy sessions Soviet leaders from Stalin who began to take on the Soviet national issues arising. The third chapter is about relationship among the Soviet Union’s ethnic problems and the Soviet Union, the Leaders sessions error handling ethnic conflicts lead to intensifying contradictions, triggering a national crisis. With the outbreak of national crisis, National Union finally disintegrated. The final chapter is about inspiration and lessons that we learned from the national disintegration of the Soviet Union.