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The Soviet-German Newspaper “Freundschaft” and the Cultural Transformation of the Soviet-Germans in Kazakhstan*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gerhard Schachner
Gerhard Schachner*
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University of Glasgow
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The 1970 census returns of the Soviet Union provided scholars with additional information about a hitherto little studied ethnic group, the Soviet-Germans. These figures not only broke the Germans down according to the regions and republics in which they lived, but also revealed how many still claimed German as their native language. A comparison of figures for 1959, 1970 and 1979 indicated the number making this claim had decreased considerably.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Spring 1981 , pp. 81 - 98
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Copyright © 1981 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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41. See for example Freundschaft, 18 August 1971, p. 2; 11 July 1973, p. 2; 27 February 1974, p. 4; 24 July 1974, p. 4; 4 September, 1974, p. 2; 6 February 1975, p. 4.Google Scholar

42. Freundschaft, 23 July 1974, p. 2; 16 October 1974, pp. 2 and 4; 6 February 1975, p. 4.Google Scholar

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44. Freundschaft, 2 June 1972, p. 2.Google Scholar

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48. Freundschaft, 19 June 1974, p. 4; 1 August 1973, p. 3.Google Scholar

49. Freundschaft, 4 April 1974, p. 2.Google Scholar

50. Freundschaft, 9 July 1974, p. 3.Google Scholar

51. Freundschaft, 16 April 1974, p. 3.Google Scholar

52. Freundschaft, 19 August-2 September 1974, pp. 4; 23 July 1974, p. 2; and 20 August 1974, p. 3.Google Scholar

53. Freundschaft, 16 April 1974, p. 3.Google Scholar

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59. All the preceding figures are calculated on the basis of “Vsesoiuznaia Perepis Naseleniia,” p. 24.Google Scholar

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