“Friendship of Peoples” and “Soviet People”: ideologems of constructing cultural and political identity in the USSR (a case of the Buryat-Mongolian/Buryat ASSR)
The article seeks to analyze the main ideologemes of the Soviet ethnopolitical narrative: “friendship of peoples”, “class solidarity,” “Soviet internationalism,” and “Soviet people.” They created the subjective status of ethnonations in the political space of the USSR and, at the same time, integrated local group identities into a single whole, appealing to the commonality of the socio-economic interests of the population and ignoring the fact of its multiethnicity.