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| | Language Policy in the former Soviet Union |
 | | Before the Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, meeting clandestinely in various places, developed a strategy (1903) on language that would have, at first, continued the hegemony of Russian in Slavic areas at least, but under pressure from especially the Poles, a more tolerant and pluralist policy was planned. |
 | | Covertly this is russification but overtly it was used to glorify and unify, and prepare for war with Germany. |
 | | By the late 1930's mass illiteracy was gone, mass opposition to sovietization was overcome, and cultural proletarianization had become wedded to russification, partly to pacify segments of the Russian population. |
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