National delimitation in the Soviet Union
Process of creating national territorial units from the ethnic diversity of USSR
National delimitation in the Soviet Union
In the Soviet Union, national delimitation was the process of specifying well-defined national territorial units (Union Republics [SSR], Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics [ASSR], autonomous oblasts [provinces], raions [districts] and okrugs [circuits]) from the ethnic diversity of the USSR and its subregions. The Russian-language term for this Soviet state policy was razmezhevanie (from Russian: национально-территориальное размежевание, natsionalno-territorialnoye razmezhevaniye), which is variously translated in English-language literature as "national-territorial delimitation" (NTD), "demarcation", or "partition". National delimitation formed part of a broader process of changes in administrative-territorial division, which also changed the boundaries of territorial units, but was not necessarily linked to national or ethnic considerations. National delimitation in the USSR was distinct from nation-building (Russian: национальное строительство), which typically referred to the policies...
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