Russification or Russianization (Russian: Русификация, Rusifikatsiya) is a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities (whether involuntarily or voluntarily) give up their culture and language in favor of Russian culture.
In a historical sense, the term refers to both official and unofficial policies of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union with respect to their national constituents and to national minorities in Russia, aimed at Russian domination and hegemony.
The major areas of Russification are politics and culture. In politics, an element of Russification is assigning Russian nationals to leading administrative positions in national institutions. In culture, Russification primarily amounts to domination of the Russian language in official business and strong influence of the Russian language on national idioms. The shifts in demographics in favour of the ethnic Russian population are sometimes considered as a form of Russification as well.
Analytically, it is helpful to distinguish Russification, as a process of changing one's ethnic self-label or identity from a non-Russian ethnonym to Russian, from Russianization, the spread of the Russian language, culture, and people into non-Russian cultures and regions, distinct also from Sovietization or the imposition of institutional forms established by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the territory ruled by that party.[1] In this sense, although Russification is usually conflated across Russification, Russianization, and Russian-led Sovietization, each can be considered a distinct process. Russianization and Sovietization, for example, did not automatically lead to Russification – change in language or self-identity of non-Russian peoples to being Russian. Thus, despite long exposure to the Russian language and culture, as well as to Sovietization, at the end of the Soviet era non-Russians were on the verge of becoming a majority of the population in the Soviet Union.[2]
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True.
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Taliban refers to the group of ultraconservative military and political organization in Afghanistan. They called themselves the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Taliban rose to power in 1994 after the end of the Soviet-Afghan War and Civil War in Afghanistan. Between 1996 and 2001 they controlled almost three-quarters of Pakistan and imposed their rule on the strict interpretation of Sharia according to which harsh punishment was imposed for petty crimes and female education is forbidden.
They were mainly based in Afghanistan and is why we sent our troops over there to find them.
William Jennings Bryan got the support from the Populists as the Democrats nomination for President.
Explanation:
The Populist party was one of the important party developed in the 1890s . The party started in Western United States and Southern United States but the party diminished after appointing William Jennings Bryan as the president during State Presidential Elections.
There were 4 goals of the Populist party, they were, creating large amount of paper money, removing national bank, Senator should be selected by the direct vote, government ownership for all types of transportation .
