Динамика численности этнических украинцев в УССР: на основе итогов Всесоюзных переписей населения 1959 г., 1970 г. и 1979 г
The dynamics of the number of ethnic Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR: on the basis of the results of the All-Union census of the population 1959, 1970 and 1979

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the All-Union censuses in 1959, 1970 and 1979 as a primary sourcefor a comprehensive studying the population dynamics and the settlement of Ukrainiansin different regions of the Ukrainian SSR during the 60’s–70’s of the XXth century.The article also describes the national policy of Soviet authorities which guided bythe national priority of state and nationwide community of «the Soviet people» andignored the value of an ethnic nation. The article brings the idea that Ukraine wasone of the centers of accumulation of immigration flows in the Soviet Union, andbecause of this fact the multicultural Ukrainian SSR society, which constituted basicallyof the Ukrainians, gradually turned into bi-national, where Ukrainian majority coexistedalong with continuously growing Russian minority. Such resettlements were carried outprimarily for political reasons and were aimed at the loss by native people their nationalcharacteristics – language, culture and the like

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