Word: kirghiz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bourgeois nationalism," as the Communists call such local patriotism, has long been the Soviet Union's most nagging domestic headache. Ukrainians and Georgians, Armenians and Kazakhs, Tartars, Yakuts and Kirghiz-all have their separate histories, their languages, culture and pride; all have been conquered by the more numerous Great Russians whose rulers made Moscow their capital. The Bolshevik Revolution theoretically gave regional autonomy to the subject nationalities, but, in practice, Communist policy has intensified Great Russian chauvinism and liquidated local liberties in the name of Sovietization...