@article{c7eb79b2ce0141608c385ddcacafe0d0,
title = "“Why not love our language and our culture?” National rights and citizenship in Khrushchev's Soviet Union",
abstract = "This paper highlights campaigns for national rights among two non-titular communities in the Soviet Union and places them in local historical contexts. Drawing on archival sources and oral history interviews, the author not only delves into the campaigns themselves, but also explores broader debates about the nature of Khrushchev's Thaw and Soviet citizenship, which was far from an empty concept in the Khrushchev era. Petitioners invoked discourses that indicate both an awareness of national rights and an expectation of the state's obligation to protect them. Oral history interviews with surviving petitioners and community members support the notion that petition language can serve as a reflection of how petitioners viewed their place in Soviet society and interpreted the Soviet citizen contract.",
keywords = "Khrushchev, Soviet history, Soviet nationality policy, citizenship, nationality politics, post-World War II era",
author = "Goff, {Krista A.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research and writing of this article were made possible by support from the US Department of Education{\textquoteright}s Fulbright-Hays Program, the Social Science Research Council, and the University of Michigan. Earlier versions of this article were presented to the 2012 SSRC Eurasia Program DDA Fellows Workshop at Georgetown University and to the Soviet Nationalities Question after 1945 Symposium at the University of Toronto. I am grateful to these workshop participants, to the editor and anonymous readers of Nationalities Papers, and to Douglas Northrop, Ronald Suny, Bruce Grant, Golfo Alexopoulos, James von Geldern, Ian Campbell, and Claire Pogue Kaiser for their suggestions. Thanks also to Zbigniew Wojnowski for organizing and editing this issue. For the epigraph, see Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin İsļ ər İdarəsinin Siyasi Sənədlər Arxivi, Baku (hereafter ARPIISSA) f.1, op.48, d.405, l.90. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, {\textcopyright} 2015 Association for the Study of Nationalities.",
year = "2015",
month = jan,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/00905992.2014.972351",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "43",
pages = "27--44",
journal = "Nationalities Papers",
issn = "0090-5992",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
}