HIS2117 Lecture 19: March 3
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Trump used the term enemies of the people. So such thing as straight analogies in history. How this de nition of a political opposition makes any opposition very dif cult. Must look at history in its own context of time. Depends on the response that it gets. Was the minorities a source of weakness of a cause of the fall. Past interpretations debating the issue of what was the source of the post soviet nations. Most common = depicted the soviet union as a prison of nations. Non russian republics were integrated by force after the revolution and were kept within the soviet union by repression. These nations always exists and reemerged after the collapse. But it is more complex than this. On the eve of revolution in imperial russia was already extremely multi national. Even the different valleys have different structures. National ideals in russia were less than in western europe.