著者

大川 良輔

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

「スラブ・ユーラシア学の構築」研究報告集

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no.23, pp.57-71, 2008-02

著者

秋月 孝子

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究(Slavic Studies) (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.22, pp.253-270, 1978-03-25

著者

横手 慎二

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究(Slavic Studies) (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.36, pp.47-78, 1989

著者

石 和静

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.46, pp.33-55, 1999

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This paper elucidates the plans for Korea's neutralization by Russia between 1900-1903 and evaluates its connection with Count Witte's Manchurian policy It deals with a series of three attempts to realize Korea's neutrality under the auspices of a "joint guarantee by the Powers," which was invented by the Russian government. In most of the literature reviewed, discussions about Russia's Korean neutralization plans have failed to view them as policies initiated by the government as a whole, and tended to interpret them only as impromptu, unauthoritative proposals by Russian Ministers on the spot. Witte, as the Russian Minister of Finance who had the greatest influence in Russian East Asian affairs, sought to strike separate under-the-table deals with Japan concerning Korea's neutrality. Japan in fact wanted a free hand for itself in the Korean peninsula, however, which seemed to Russia absolutely unacceptable in view of Korea's paramount strategic significance. This study shows that Korea's neutralization was Russia's ultimate goal, and this goal conflicted with lapan's stance on the Korean and Manchurian issues. In the end, these tensions contributed to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. The Korean neutralization policy was originated and conducted by Witte. This was due to Witte and his ministry's involvement in all aspects of Russian foreign affairs. Witte's solution to the Korean problem was always connected with the situation in Manchuria, where the Russians wanted to exercise their extraterritorial rights. He brought up the Korean neutralization policy as a temporary means to defend against the lapanese from "getting into Korea" while Russian troops were actively engaged against the Boxer Rebellion in Manchuria. Witte argued that Japan would be handicapped by the expenditures it was making in Korea and that it would be much more susceptible to Russian pressure, especially once the Transsiberian Railroad was completed. All of which would make it easier for Russia to take possession of Korea later, if circumstances required. In other words, Witte was simply searching for a modus vivendi until Russian preparations were complete. Henceforth Russian troops occupied Manchuria on 7 January 1901, Izvolskii, the Russian Minister to Japan, proposed Korea's neutralization under international guarantees, that is, by Japan and Russia, which in substance would divide the Korean peninsula according to each side's sphere of influence. The Japanese government, however, replied that they would not discuss Korea's neutrality until the Russians took steps to move their armies out of Manchuria. By replying through Chinda, the Japanese Minister to St. Petersburg, Japan by- passed lzvolskii who had been entrusted by the Czar with the authority to negotiate the neutralization issue. The two countries' relations continued to be very strained. The "war crisis" of Spring 1901, caused by the conflict and mutual distrust between Russia and lapan on the Manchurian and Korean questions, had a number of consequences. First, it tended to unite Japanese statesmen who had previously been undecided with the proponents of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Second, for Witte, Russia's primary concern was to avoid war with Japan, and the best means for solving the Manchurian problem was to renounce any political intentions in Manchuria and limit Russian interests there to the protection the Chinese Eastern Railway's interest as a private company With regards to Korea, he felt that if lapan demanded the country's annexation, the proper course would be to open the issue to international discussion. Even if Japan seized Korea, Russia should not consider it a casus belli. Following the "war crisis," a second neutrality scheme was attempted by Witte himself. In July 1901, when his ideas were accepted as the basis for a plan for the three-stepped e vacuation of Manchuria with some reservations, he approached the Japanese Minister in St. Petersburg and suggested, unofficially, a conditional arrangement regarding the crucial Korean problem. Russia, he said, would agree to a settlement making Korea a neutral area, but allow Japan the right to supply the Korean government with administrative and fmancial advisers as well as with a chief of police. In return, Iapan would officially recognize Russia's preponderance in Manchuria. Witte's practical proposals would have conceded Japan's demands in Korea with some reservations and normalized relations with China. The main concern of Wiitte's counterpart, however, was Korea, and for Japan it was seen as matter of life and death for Japan to keep Russia out of Korea. Japan could not question the actions of Russia in Manchuria merely on the basis of the London Times revelations of reported Russo-Chinese secret ne gotiations to consolidate Russia's occupation of Manchuria. By tying in the Manchurian question with Korea they hoped to ascertain Russia's intentions. The Russian proposal ended in failure because lapan would not enter into an agreement concerning Korea until the fate of Manchuria was decisively settled. Russia did not take this to mean a breakdown in negotiations. In Decernber 1901, while the question of a military retreat from Manchuria was a heated subject of discussion between Russia and China, Witte suggested more specific neutrality terms in St. Petersburg, in talks with Ito, Iapan's former Premier. It is evident that the Russians accepted the Japanese demands with respect to Korea only with the following qualifications: guarantees to maintain Korea's independence, not to use any part of Korean territory for strategic purposes, and not to hinder Russia's free passage through the Korea Strait. In return, Russia was to be left with a free hand in Manchuria. On the other hand, Ito brought with him an itemized plan setting forth Japan's desire for a free hand in Korea commercially, industrially, militarily and politically, as well as offering a guarantee that the country would not be used for military purposes against Russia. In the end, Russia's final plan was refused by the Japanese government. Japan felt compelled to conclude an alliance with England which would provide it with the guarantees it needed for primacy over Korea rather than negotiate an agreement with Russia which would have hindered it in attaining this goal. The last secret attempt by Russia to achieve Korea's neutrality was the proposal for the "Neutralization of Korea under the joint guarantee of the Three Powers, Russia, Japan, and America." This plan was aborted almost as soon as Russia had begun proposing it, mainly because America had already made a decision not to interfere in a matter being pursued by the Japanese government. At the time lapan questioned Russia's approaches to America. It is evident that with the first scheduled evacuation in Manchuria coming soon, Witte probably considered the plan as a way of placating America and to encouraging them to develop a new understanding regarding Korea. To restrict Russia's activities in Manchuria and in support of the Anglo-Iapanese Alliance, the United States demanded the 'Open Door' policy in China. It should be also noted that the fmal neutralization scheme proposed in September 1902 was a more concrete version of the plan "under the joint guarantee of the Powers" which had been formally proposed in January 1901. The main feature of the negotiations on Korea's neutralization between Russia and Japan was that the Russian proposals were repeatedly rejected by the Japanese, who were always one step ahead of Russia. The pattern of Russia's abortive schemes for Korean neutrality did not change in official discussions on the Manchurian and Korean questions after August 1903, the period of so-called "w ar diplomacy." From the Japanese point of view," the neutralization of Korea" meant the sacrifice of its position on the peninsula. In fact, Japan, not yet viewing itself as a fully independent actor, had the support of England and America behind it. Agreeing to anti-Russian common interests, the Western powers did not stint in their promises of diplomatic support to Japan. It can be surmised that the failure of Russia's schemes to neutralize Korea, aimed at putting lapan's imperialistic ambitions to rest, was a by-product of general trends in power politics in East Asia since the last decades of the nineteenth century.

著者

猪木 正道

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.4, pp.1-17, 1960

著者

鳥山 成人 鳥山 成人 鳥山 成人

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.1, pp.25-70, 1957

著者

百瀬 宏

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.21, pp.217-232, 1976

著者

豊川 浩一

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.39, pp.73-96, 1992

著者

宇山 智彦

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, pp.27-59, 2006

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This paper aims to challenge various traditional views of the Russian Empire: that it was a ruthless "Russirier"; that it had a universalistic and hannonious principle for integration; that in its last stage the empire was transforming itself to a nation-state. I try to do so by examining history of two unsuccessful projects of the Russian Empire in Central Asia, that is, Christianization as propagation of a universalistic ideology, and military conscription as a tool of nation building. Debates on Christianization of Central Asians began in the 1860s. The Kazakhs and Kyrgyz were considered to be half-Muslims, unlike Tatars and Uzbeks ("Sarts"), and therefore relatively easy targets for propagation of Orthodoxy. Opponents to Christianization, however, maintained that it could antagonize Muslims (including Kazakhs and Kyrgyz) and cause disorders. In Turkistan, whose Muslim sedentary population was called "fanatic," Governor-General Kaufman practically prohibited missionary activities. He did not object to General Kolpakovskii's support to missionary activities among the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Kalmyks in Semirech'e, but the results of proselytism there were meager. Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, only about one thousand Central Asian natives converted to Orthodoxy. The Tsar's manifesto of religious toleration in April 1905, which conditionally sanctioned conversion from Orthodoxy to other faiths, dealt a final blow to missionaries. Most of the baptized Central Asians went back to Islam and almost no one was newly converted after this. Scenes of the revolt of 1916 in Semirech'e, where rebels killed monks and Russians in arms gathered in church squares, were highly symbolic in the sense that the Orthodox Church, after all, belonged to the Russians, not the native peoples of Central Asia. The second part of the paper examines discussions on military conscription of Central Asians, who were exempted from it as inorodtsy (aliens). One of the arguments for conscription was the necessity of strong cavalry in preparation for possible wars with China and Afghanistan. Officers cited the high quality of Central Asian nomads as horse-riders, and emphasized that military service was a powerful tool of Russification and the best school to teach public order. Again, a major argument against military conscription was the possibility of disturbances. Many officers feared that military service would give the population leaders for possible insurrections. Some also insisted that the conditions of military service radically contradicted the mode of life of nomads who were accustomed to unlimited freedom. Overall, they alleged that Central Asians' "low blagonadezhnost' (trustworthiness) and grazhdanstvennost' (level of civic development)" was a fundamental obstacle to their conscription. Officers evaluated the combat ability of various ethnic groups differently. They generally regarded the sedentary population of Turkistan as cowards and called the Kazakhs excellent horsemen but not necessarily courageous warriors, but were fascinated by the splendid quality of the Turkmen as warriors. This fascination gave birth to the exceptional case of the Turkmen irregular cavalry. After 1905, Russian nationalists increasingly asserted that Russians bore an unjustly heavy burden in defending the empire, and called for drafting inorodtsy. During World War I, the Ministry of War drew up a bill to draft almost all the ethnic groups of the empire, but the Ministry of Interior nixed it. In 1916, the government suddenly decided to mobilize Central Asians not as soldiers but as laborers, which gave rise to a huge revolt. On the whole, discussions of military service by Central Asians (which continued for more than half a century) took the character of a chicken-and-egg problem. Would military service enhance their grazhdanstvennost' and Russify them, or did military service require a sufficiently high level of grazhdanstvennost' and Russification? Eventually, officials who mistrusted inorodtsy always managed to block conscription proposals. Reasons for the failure of the two projects were partly rooted in the Russian bureaucracy. Permission for missionary activities was often given after much delay or was not given at all. The Orthodox Church itself had a hierarchical and bureaucratic structure. By contrast, Muslim mullahs went into the steppe as peddlers and healers without bureaucratic procedures, and could easily adapt themselves to local society. Moreover, officials' grasp of local situations was shaky. They thought that native administration of volosts and villages formed an "impermeable curtain" and hindered them from knowing Muslim life. The most important point of my analyses is the particularistic features or Russian policy. Many officials shared the view that it was desirable to Russify Central Asians, but there was hardly any resolute determination to carry out concrete measures for this purpose. They were interested in passive maintenance of stability rather than active integration and Russification. They did not just differentiate Central Asians from the Russians, but also differentiated nomads from sedentary people, the steppe oblasts from Turkistan. Officials were obsessed with the idea that they had to discuss the pros and cons of a policy measure in relation to every single region or ethnic group. This attitude of alienating (or otherizing) Central Asians and classifying them is what I call particularism. Particularism partly derived from a character inherent to autocratic empires. In such empires, a subjugated country or people pledged allegiance separately to the monarch, and were given peculiar privileges and obligations. But in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, quasi-academic discourses on ethnic characters added new meanings to particularism. Courageousness, warlikeness, trustworthiness and grazhdanstvennost' were considered to be characters of ethnic groups rather than qualities of individuals. This tendency to attach excessively great importance to ethnic characters was a product of Orientalism and the mind of the colonial state.

著者

豊川 浩一

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.37, pp.177-207, 1990

著者

坂本 清

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.36, pp.79-111, 1989

著者

野村 政修

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.45, pp.305-318, 1998-03-31

著者

伊賀上 菜穂

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, pp.179-212, 2002

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Какое значение имеет для русских сельских жителей эпоха Советского Союза? Чтобы ответить на этот вопрос, на мой взгляд, важно познать динамику культурных изменений: какие элементы культуры транслировались, а какие нет с дореволюционного общества на постсоветскую жизнь. Для сравнительного анализа я выбрала один из важнейших социальных элементов - «родство». Как источник изучения системы родства у крестьян анализируются свадебные обряды Грязовецкого уезда Вологодской губернии конца XIX - начала XX вв. В данной статье я преследовала цель - представить свадебные обряды как целостный комплекс. Для этого я специально ограничила объект наблюдения до административной единицы «уезд», точнее говоря, до восточной половины Грязовецкого уезда, и анализировала целостный процесс свадебных обрядов как со стороны терминов, так и совершаемых действий. Грязовецкий уезд находился в юго-западной части Вологодской губернии, не очень далеко от губернского центра г. Вологды. Из 7 волостей, выбранных в статье в качестве объекта наблюдения, в 3 волостях численно превосходили бывшие частновладельческие крестьяне, а в остальных - бывшие государственные. Следует еще указать, что одна южная волость отличалась от других давним распространением отходничества. Так как этот уезд был расположен на границе между северной и центральной частью Европейской России, там ярко наблюдались культурные традиции обеих территорий. В частности, в свадебных обрядах можно найти много общих черт как с северной, так и с центральной частями России. Но вместе с тем грязовецкие обряды имеют ряд существенных отличий, например, отсутствует обряд в бане, наблюдается небольшое количество магических элементов (включая и сглаз, и колдовство), развиты разные формы выкупа со стороны жениха. На основе локальных материалов по свадебной обрядности, можно утверждать, что в восточной части Грязовецкого уезда отмечаются 4 субтипа свадебных обрядов. На мой взгляд, деление на субтипы совпадает исключительно с географическим расположением. Я не заметила влияния бывших крестьянских категорий или типа хозяйствования на структуру обрядов. На основе грязовецкой системы терминов родства, которая очень близка к системе современного стандартного (литературного) русского языка, можно сказать, что система родства у грязовецких крестьян носит эго-фокусный (ego-focal) характер, т. е. родственников определяют в зависимости не от общих предков, а от отношения с «эго» билатерально без разницы сторон отца и матери, и даже включаются в «родство» и некровные: свойственники, крестные и приемыши. В анализе свадебных обрядов я обращала особое внимание на рамки упомянутых родственников, характер и время их действий. Однако большое количество обрядовых терминов свадебных чинов и вместе с тем недостаточная информация о выборе конкретного действующего лица для каждого чина не разрешают определить зависимость между каждым действием и действующими лицами. Поэтому я анализировала действующих в обряде лиц двухстепенно, т. е. сначала классифицировала участников по генеалогическим статусам (отец, тетя, зять и т. д.), потом по свадебным чинам (дружка, сваха и т. д.). Результат анализа ценен с точки зрения двух аспектов познания системы родства: «половозрастная система» и «отношения между родственниками и не-родственниками». В грязовецких свадебных обрядах выбор действующего лица для определенного действия не определяется в большинстве своем по генеалогическому статусу. Исключение, естественно, составляют родные родители, родные братья и иногда крестные родители. Зато многие обрядовые роли у родственников разделяются по половозрастной системе. Это особенно касается замужних родственниц (тети, крестная мать и замужние сестры), от которых выбирают исполнительниц свахи, раздачи невестинов даров и т. п. От родственников мужчин отцовского поколения со стороны жениха выбираются главные свадебные чины, тысяцкий, сват и дружка, действия которых во многом совпадают. Что касается парней и девушек, то родственники и не-родственники часто исполняют одну и ту же роль: парни - участники в свадебных поездах, девушки причитают у невесты. В материалах по свадебной обрядности можно найти данные, свидетельствующие о том, что в одной половозрастной группе предпочитают родственников более близкой степени родства: предпочитают, например, родную сестру двоюродной. Но следует указать, что в грязовецких свадебных обрядах не наблюдается предпочтение какойлибо одной стороны родства (отца или матери), а также категорическое следование принципу старшинства и кровных связей. Последние, в частности, отражаются на отсутствии в материалах по свадебным обрядам сведений о дедушках и бабушках и так же на факте предпочтения зятя двоюродному брату как «заместителя» родного брата. Можно сделать вывод о этом, что в том регионе исполнителей свадебных обрядовых ролей выбирают сравнительно свободно, из широкого круга родственников по половозрастной системе. Это доказывает, что свадебные обряды есть событие, подтверждающее и реконструирующее внутренние связи между родственниками. Что касается связей между родственниками и не-родственниками, то участники в свадебных обрядах разделены на три группы: 1. главные свадебные чины, 2. званые гости без специальной роли и помощницы (поварихи), 3. незваные гости. Большинство участников первой группы - родственники, третьей - не-родственники, а во вторую группу включаются обе категории. Анализ материала по данному вопросу позволяет выделить две характерные черты. Во-первых, в этом регионе не развит обычай укреплять отношения с не-родственниками, специально назначенными на важные свадебные чины в знак почтения и уважения. Крестных родителей могут выбрать из не-родственников, но в исследуемом регионе чаще всего выбирают из кровных родственников. Во-вторых, несмотря на вышеуказанное, не-родственники тоже активно участвуют в обрядах как званые гости и даже как незваные. Последние дают общинное согласие на брак, требуя выкупа от гостей даже во время застолья. В грязовецких свадебных обрядах можно наблюдать совмещение предпочтения родственников и выражения уважения к общине, причем без серьезного коммуникативного напряжения двух категорий участников свадебного обряда. Такой «баланс» в достаточной степени объясняется совпадением отношения кровного с соседским. Но у русских крестьян, которые не имеют «систему родства патрилинейного происхождения» (patrilineal descent group), люди с физической кровной связью не всегда считаются родственниками. Таким образом, можно сказать, что свадебные обряды функционируют как процесс, способствующий переключению отношений между людьми с кровной (родственной) связи на просто соседское. Выводится следующее заключение. В исследуемом регионе внутренняя и внешняя форма «родства», функционирующая как вид взаимной помощи, изменяется в зависимости от конкретных отношений между людьми. В такой ситуации свадебные обряды представляют семьям жениха и невесты редкий случай познать и реформировать «свою» рамку родства и его внутренние отношения. Но здесь следует подчеркнуть, возможно такой выборочный характер «родства» появился только после распада бывшей системы взаимной помощи среди родственников, которая была действенна до промышленной революции. В советское время отношения между участниками свадебного обряда подверглись изменениям. На современной свадьбе почти не существует иерархии гостей, нет разницы между старшими родственниками и молодыми друзьями. Незваные уже редко заходят на застолье. Такие изменения стали наблюдаться уже в конце XIX века: половозрастной принцип терял свою символическую и обрядовую основу. Но познавательное понятие родства не изменялось и родство до сих пор продолжает функционировать как система взаимной помощи и поддержки в условиях тяжелой социальной ситуации.

著者

沢田 和彦

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

巻号頁・発行日

no.47, pp.327-353, 2000

出版者

北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.33, pp.118-122, 1986

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五十嵐 清

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北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.7, pp.1-14, 1963

著者

塩川 伸明

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北海道大学スラブ研究センター

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スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.46, pp.155-190, 1999

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Hitherto, Soviet language policy was often interpreted to be aimed at "Russification." Although this viewpoint is not entirely groundless, it is often exaggerated and tends to lead to a one-sided picture. It is true that many non-Russian nationalities in the Soviet Union have been, more or less, linguistically russified. But it cannot be denied that some nationalities, especially those with Union republics, have retained their national languages to a fairly high degree. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the language situation more fully on the basis of empirical data. It is well-known that in the 1920s the Soviet authorities adopted the policy of "korenizatsiia," which meant extending education among nationalities by their own national languages. For the central political leaders, this policy was merely a means for spreading the official policy to the masses. In the localities, however, some activists tried to use this policy for nationalistic purposes. Thus, the meaning of the policy of "korenizatsiia" was ambivalent and the process of its implementation was not consistent. The 1930s saw several policy changes, but the process of the changes was not so straight-forward as was often supposed. First of all, at the beginning of the decade political centralization was greatly enhanced, and as a result some republican leaders were demoted. This personnel change entailed the strengthening of political control over nationalities. It is important, however, not to confuse this political centralization with Russification, for Russian people also suffered severely by the political control, and the old Russian national tradition was not officially glorified, at least until the mid-1930s. The attitude of the Soviet authorities toward old traditions began changing around the mid-1930s. The fervent anti-traditionalism of the early revolutionary days subsided and the queer amalgam of Sovietism and pre-Revolutionary tradition came into being. This situation made it possible for Russian nationalism to creep into the official ideology. This, however, did not necessarily mean that the policy of Russification was established once and for all. Along with Russian nationalism, Ukrainian, Armenian, Uzbek and some other kinds of nationalism also crept into the official ideology, although it is clear that the latter were relatively low-ranked in comparison with Russian nationalism. The Soviet nationality policy after the late 1930s was characterized by its hierarchical nature. At the top of the hierarchy, needless to say, stood Russians. Some relatively large nationalities, such as Ukrainians and Uzbeks which had their own Union republics, came on the second echelon. Then followed the third-ranked nationalities, such as Tatars and Bashkirs, which had Autonomous republics or Autonomous regions, as contrasted with Union republics. At the bottom of the ladder there were minor ethnic groups which were not officially recognized as separate nationalities. The lower an ethnic group was ranked in the hierarchy, the stronger it underwent the tendency of Russification. In contrast, the relatively high-rank ed nationalities maintained their own national languages, with the only exception of Ukrainians and Belarussians who belong to the Eastern Slavic family and are easily russified without administrative pressure. After Stalin died, Khrushcev took an ambivalent nationality policy. On the one hand, he rehabilitated some "punished peoples" who were deported en masse by Stalin and took several decentralizing measures, which enhanced the autonomy of some nationalities. On the other hand, he advocated the all-out construction of full communism and the complete fusion of nationalities under communism. The 1958-59 education reform abolished the principle of compulsory education in native languages and instead introduced the principle of an optional system, which meant that parents could choose which school to send their children to, i.e., to a national- language school or a Russian- language one. Thereafter, education in national languages has continued to decline and some minorities have tended to lose their national languages. It is clear, then, that some of Soviet language policies were explicitly aimed at extending the education of the Russian language among non-Russian nationalities. Among the most prominent were: the 1938 decision to make it compulsory to teach Russian in non-Russian schools; the 1958-59 education reform referred to above; and the more intensified policy of extending the Russian language after the late-1970s. This, however, does not mean that the aim of these policies was the straightforward Russification. As far as the relatively large nationalities were concerned, education in their own nationality language was maintained and Russian was taught as the second language. In this case the official aim was not simple Russification but the spread of bilingualism. As concerns the smaller nationalities, in contrast, the education in their own national language was impossible to enforce, and therefore the Russification progressed through education in Russian. Thus far, we have surveyed the history of the official Soviet language policy. But the effect of the policy is another matter of discussion. In the Soviet Union, especially under Brezhnev, the official policy was often proclaimed only on paper, and the real situation was left far from the state at which the official ideology aimed. It is necessary, therefore, to investigate the real situation on the basis of empirical data. Although the Soviet statistics and sociological research are poor both quantitatively and qualitatively, it is not impossible to examine this situation which differs greatly from the official ideology. Most of the relatively large nationalities, with a few exceptions, have kept their own national languages as mother tongues. Besides, those languages were used quite extensively in education and publishing. As concerns publishing activities in 1985, the number of items published per population was highest in Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Georgian. Russian came in at the fifth place and Armenian the sixth. In contrast, Belarusian and Ukrainian came in at the sixteenth and eighteenth, respectively. As for education, Soviet languages were classified into three categories: first, those used extensively both in general and higher education. This category includes not only Russian, but also the three Baltic languages, Georgian and Armenian. The second category , which included the Central Asian languages, Moldovan and Azerbaidzhan, was used widely in general education only. In these national republics higher education was mainly conducted in Russian. Finally, the third category, to which Ukrainian and Belarusian belonged, was scarcely used whether in general or in higher education. Those facts we have examined above clearly indicate that the language situation varies from one nationality to another. What factors, then, explain the variation? We may suppose that at least six factors are related. The first one is the position held by each nationality in the Soviet federal system. As was already noted, the Soviet federal system constituted a unique hierarchy, consisting of Union republics, Autonomous republics, Autonomous regions, Autonomous okruga, and those without national autonomy. This hierarchy was closely related to education policy, and the latter influenced the language situation of each nationality. The second factor is the cultural-ethnic proximity of each nationality to the Russians. In this regard, the two Eastern Slavic nationalities, Ukrainians and Belarusians, are, needless to say, most easily russified. Those nationalities who were converted by the Russians into Orthodox, e.g. Chuvashi, Udmurtians, Mordvins etc., have also been greatly russified. In contrast, the degree of Russification of most Moslem and Turkic nationalities remains generally very low. Thirdly, we have to consider the tradition of literary and scientific works in national languages. The greater tradition a nationality has, the more strongly it tends to cling to its own national languages. The Baltic nationalities and Georgians are clear examples. Fourthly, the degree of urbanization influences the process of Russification. In major cities the language of official administration is usually Russian, and Russification proceeds more intensively than in rural areas. This fact is especially important in the Central Asian republics, where the percentage of rural population remains still high. The fifth factor is the percentage of Russians among the population. Needless to say, in the localities where Russians live in mass, Russification tends to be stronger than other areas. Lastly, we have to consider the degree of diaspora of each nationality. Those nationalities who reside scattered all over the whole Soviet Union tend to be more strongly russified than those who live closely in their home republic. It suffices to mention the contrast between Jews, Tatars, or Armenians, on the one hand, and Georgians and the Baltic nationalities, on the other hand. These six do not exhaust the related factors, but we can surmise that these are among the most important ones. By combining these factors, we can make a typology of the language situation of Soviet nationalities. We hope this typology can serve as a solid stepping stone for further investigation.

著者

原 暉之

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北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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no.24, pp.p75-125, 1979

著者

大石 雅彦

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北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.36, pp.21-45, 1989

著者

秋月 俊幸

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北海道大学スラブ研究センター

雑誌

スラヴ研究 (ISSN:05626579)

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vol.19, pp.59-95, 1974