Russification
Imposing Russian identity
Russification is the process of making something Russian in character—imposing Russian language, culture, and identity on non-Russian peoples.
The term usually describes policies of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union that suppressed minority languages and cultures in favor of Russian dominance: Russification policies forced schools to teach only in Russian.
The concept applies to any effort to absorb ethnic minorities into Russian cultural identity.
Absorbing into a whole
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- HolodomorEngineered Soviet famine
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
Russianization · imperialism · annexation · homogenization · centralization · Sovietism · Stalinism · collectivization
Eastern European sovereign state
- KazakhstanLargest landlocked country
- BelarusEastern European landlocked nation
- CaucasusMountain range, Black to Caspian
- Central AsiaContinental interior between Russia and Iran
Siberia · Finland · Poland · Moldova · Chechnya · Georgia · Armenia · Azerbaijan
Proficiency in two languages
- loanwordsAdopted foreign vocabulary
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
- diglossiaCoexisting language varieties, distinct roles
assimilation
Absorbing into a whole
- resettlementReestablishing in new place
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- HolodomorEngineered Soviet famine
deportation · Russianization · imperialism · annexation · homogenization · centralization · Sovietism · Stalinism · collectivization
Ukraine
Eastern European sovereign state
- KazakhstanLargest landlocked country
- BelarusEastern European landlocked nation
- CaucasusMountain range, Black to Caspian
Central Asia · Siberia · Finland · Poland · Moldova · Chechnya · Georgia · Armenia · Azerbaijan
bilingualism
Proficiency in two languages
- loanwordsAdopted foreign vocabulary
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
diglossia · mother tongue · minority languages · transliteration
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- Soviet controlgulags, secret police, show trials, purges, collectivization
- Ukraine HistoryCossacks, Holodomor, Chernobyl, Orange Revolution, Cossack Hetmanate
- Polish Historypartitions, Piast dynasty, Pulaski, September 1939, Warsaw Ghetto
- Baltic SovietsSinging Revolution, Soviet occupation, independence movement, National Front, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- Belarus HistoryBelarus, Minsk, Soviet republic, Soviet era, Soviet rule
RussificationGermanization
Imposing German language, culture
nationalization · Anglicization · Arabization · localization