Kurds of the USSR in the 1920s-30s: processes adaptation and integration into the Soviet system

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Master's thesis

Ismet Konak


Ismet Konak in his dissertation dedicated to the adaptation and integration of Kurds in the Soviet Union gave a large and voluminous information about the difficulties faced by national minorities-Kurds in the USSR. Ismet Konak shows and clarifies what the term national minorities is in different States at legal levels.

As you know, in multinational countries, you need to pay close attention to national policy and interethnic relations.  The USSR was inhabited by 190 different ethnic groups, among which a special place was occupied by national minorities, that is, immigrants from other States.

In the draft law "on national minorities" of modern Russia, the concept of national minorities is defined as follows. A "national minority" is a part of a people living in a foreign environment outside its traditional settlement, but continuing to preserve the identity, language, culture, traditions and other ethnic characteristics of this people."

 Ismet Konak also focuses on the fact that ethnic minorities often face discrimination from the titular Nations. After the collapse of the USSR and the formation of independent States in the immediate environment of Russia, the problem of national minorities in some of them tends to worsen, since large groups of the population were now in the category of "national minorities". The Kurds to whom this work is devoted were classified as "national minorities" in Soviet Russia.

Ismet Konak does not mention the Yazidis and classifies them as Kurds. This can be seen in this passage, which lists the place of residence of the Kurds "on the territory of Russia, the Kurds live mainly in the Caucasus: most of them - in Transcaucasia, in addition to Adygea and North Ossetia. A small part of the Kurds settled in other parts of Russia, such as Rostov, Stavropol and Krasnodar region.»

Just the same in the Caucasus live Yazidis and in those areas of Russia, where listed Ismet Konak live mostly Yazidis in the period of the Soviet Union Until now. The question-whether it was a deliberate mistake or Ismet Konak just wanted to show the Yazidi community how they lived in the Soviet period and thereby point out their problems, remains open and debatable.





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Kurds of the USSR in the 1920s-30s: processes adaptation and integration into the Soviet system

2019/11/23135-1574943734.jpg
Read: 2709     15:30     28 Ноябрь 2019    

Master's thesis

Ismet Konak


Ismet Konak in his dissertation dedicated to the adaptation and integration of Kurds in the Soviet Union gave a large and voluminous information about the difficulties faced by national minorities-Kurds in the USSR. Ismet Konak shows and clarifies what the term national minorities is in different States at legal levels.

As you know, in multinational countries, you need to pay close attention to national policy and interethnic relations.  The USSR was inhabited by 190 different ethnic groups, among which a special place was occupied by national minorities, that is, immigrants from other States.

In the draft law "on national minorities" of modern Russia, the concept of national minorities is defined as follows. A "national minority" is a part of a people living in a foreign environment outside its traditional settlement, but continuing to preserve the identity, language, culture, traditions and other ethnic characteristics of this people."

 Ismet Konak also focuses on the fact that ethnic minorities often face discrimination from the titular Nations. After the collapse of the USSR and the formation of independent States in the immediate environment of Russia, the problem of national minorities in some of them tends to worsen, since large groups of the population were now in the category of "national minorities". The Kurds to whom this work is devoted were classified as "national minorities" in Soviet Russia.

Ismet Konak does not mention the Yazidis and classifies them as Kurds. This can be seen in this passage, which lists the place of residence of the Kurds "on the territory of Russia, the Kurds live mainly in the Caucasus: most of them - in Transcaucasia, in addition to Adygea and North Ossetia. A small part of the Kurds settled in other parts of Russia, such as Rostov, Stavropol and Krasnodar region.»

Just the same in the Caucasus live Yazidis and in those areas of Russia, where listed Ismet Konak live mostly Yazidis in the period of the Soviet Union Until now. The question-whether it was a deliberate mistake or Ismet Konak just wanted to show the Yazidi community how they lived in the Soviet period and thereby point out their problems, remains open and debatable.





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