Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brave few fighting for human rights, others seeking to emigrate, some striving for religious freedom, and also ethnic groups trying to regain their homelands...
...repeatedly been denied permission to emigrate to Israel, was compelling evidence of Soviet efforts to put down Jewish dissidence and of the persistence of traditional antiSemitism. Together, though, the three trials revealed the Kremlin's increasing alarm over the growth of libertarian movements among the Soviet Union's other ethnic minorities and religious groups. It was hardly a coincidence that all three men tried last week were members of unofficial Helsinki Watch Committees that had been formed to monitor Soviet compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki agreements. Such groups, which have sprung up in the Baltic...
While limitations of culture on non-Russians will not let up either, feelings of ethnic identity are on the rise as the Soviet language takes on more word variations and different accents...
...increase in the birthrates of non-Russian ethnic groups in the Soviet Union may by the '80s rearrange the fabric of Soviet social institutions, such as industry and the military, Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and professor of History, said yesterday in a lecture at the Science Center...
Demographics indicate that the population of non-Russian ethnic groups is increasing three times faster than the Russian population, Keenan told a group of 95 people attending the Summer School Thursday Lecture Series event...