Available at: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2684
Date of Award
6-2023
Degree Name
MA in History
Department/Program
History
College
College of Liberal Arts
Advisor
Thomas R. Trice
Advisor Department
History
Advisor College
College of Liberal Arts
Abstract
This thesis defines the formation and consummation of Soviet Bolshevism as another imperialist force rather than its stated objective of freeing the people of the United Soviet Socialist Republics from the clutches of an inequitable elite. Through the policies and objectives of the Soviet government the workers and citizens of Ukraine and the Baltic republics were not liberated or given autonomy over their lives and labor, as Marxist-Leninism would have them believe. I review the Russification efforts found first in the Tsarist Russian Empire and then continued by Soviets in the nature of pursuing or denying cultural, political, and economic self-sufficiency.