Soviet ethnic policy

thumb|right|250px|Minsk, Belarus, 2011: old street sign in Belarusian (right) replaced with new one in Russian (left). Russification (), Russianisation or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians adopt Russian culture and Russian language either voluntarily or as a result of a deliberate state policy.

transfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union

ethnic cleansing of Chechens and Ingush in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin

thumb|The 1921 Soviet recruitment to the Military Education poster with the Ukrainization theme. The text reads: "Son! Enroll in the , and the defence of Soviet Ukraine will be ensured." The poster uses traditional Ukrainian imagery with Ukrainian-language text to reach a wider appeal. The School of Red Commanders in [[Kharkiv was organized to promote the careers of the Ukrainian national cadre in the army.]]

Citizens of the Soviet Union

De-Cossackization (; ) was the Bolshevik policy of systematic repression against the Cossacks in territories of the former Russian Empire between 1919 and 1933, especially the Don and Kuban Cossacks in Russia, aimed at the elimination of the Cossacks as a distinct collectivity by exterminating the Cossack élite, coercing all other Cossacks into compliance, and eliminating Cossack distinctness. Several scholars have categorised this as a form of genocide, whilst other historians have highly disputed this classification due to the contentious figures involved, which range from "a few thousand to

process of allocating national administrative-territorial units

antisemitic slur for Jews in the Soviet Union

Soviet government agency

census

Archetype of the ideal Soviet citizen

1913 essay by Joseph Stalin

Deportations from Latvia in 1941 and 1945–1951

Soviet deportation

mass casualties carried out on the Chechen people by Russia

overview of Sovietization of the Baltic states