Sentence examples for nationalities question from inspiring English sources

But glasnost immediately spread to the whole country and to the nationalities question.

The nationalities question sprang up everywhere, and the most extreme chauvinistic points of view developed.

Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question.

Lieven is both honest and sympathetic in rendering his verdicts: neither the Russian nor the Austrian leaders found an answer to their nationalities question.

His theoretical talents were revealed with the publication of Die Nationalitätenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie (1907; "The Nationalities Question and Social Democracy"), in which he viewed the conflict among the nationalities as a class struggle and foresaw many of the actual post-World War I developments in the Danubian region.

At the same time freedom of press and dissent allowed by glasnost and the festering "nationalities question" increasingly led the Union's component republics to declare their autonomy from Moscow, with the Baltic states withdrawing from the Union entirely.

Most acute for Austria-Hungary was the nationality question.

We have to have the nationality question solved before anything".

Ms. Corwin said the United States would not be asking any institution "to affirmatively ask every one of their account holders the nationality question".

"To the Soviet Union this is the most serious nationality question," said Shahram Chubin, an expert on Persian Gulf security affairs based in Geneva.

First, drop the current race questions, which misleadingly conflate race and nationality, and ask two new questions: one based on a streamlined version of today's ethnic and racial categories, and a separate, comprehensive nationality question.