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| | Holodomor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | They have to be understood in the larger context of the social revolution 'from above' that took place in the Soviet Union at the time. |
 | | In the early 1920s, when Soviet Russia needed to win the sympathy of other nations for the newly born communist state, Ukraine enjoyed a short period of revival of its national culture under the policy of Korenizatsiya. |
 | | This was, however, ended and replaced with the a policy of effective Russification, as soon as the Soviet regime firmly took root, thereby causing significant social, cultural, and political conflict in the Ukrainian populated territories. |
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