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Andropov and the Non-Russian Nationalities: Attitudes and Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Ilya Zemtsov
Ilya Zemtsov*
Affiliation:
International Research Center on Contemporary Society, Israel
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In early 1983 I concluded my book on Iu. V. Andropov with the prediction: “This is how Andropov's country will advance toward its own 1984 which hopefully will not correspond to Orwell's description.” Scarcely one year later the Soviet Union did actually enter 1984 — both in the chronological and in the profounder sense — but without Andropov. And it probably happened against Andropov's desires and expectations.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , spring 1985 , pp. 5 - 23
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Copyright © 1982 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities of the USSR and Eastern Europe, Inc. 

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2 Ibid., Speech of the General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU Iu. V. Andropov at the Plenum of the CC of the CPSU on 22 November 1982, Pravda, 23 November 1982; Izvestiia, 1 February 1983; Pravda, 22 December 1982.Google Scholar

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