NATIONAL POLICY IN THE USSR AND POLICY OF "INDIGENIZATION" IN THE LIFE OF GREEK ETHNOS: GOALS AND METHODS OF ITS REALIZATION
In the article, which is part of a large scientific work, the author analyzes the essence of national policy in the USSR in the 20-30s of the XX century. On the basis of the sources of the period of Soviet modernization in the USSR (legal documents, archival materials, protocols, resolutions, orders, reports of party, state organs, memoirs of contemporaries), the author traces the development of the ethnic policy of Soviet totalitarianism. This policy evolved from revolutionary internationalism and a utopian dream of a world victory for just ideas to a pragmatic task ofpreserving Bolshevik power in a single multinational country, with a unique allied form of organization. The author examines the continuity of the policies of the 1920s and 1930s, reveals brutal political logic in the actions of the Stalinist leadership, which, forming the borders of the republics, their state structure, language, culture, juggled the destiny ofpeoples, especially such small and very isolated in the face of history as Greeks of the Donetsk region.