• DOI:10.1080/00905990120050811
• Corpus ID: 154628126

The mass media and the national question in Udmurtia in the 1990s

@article{Shkliaev2001TheMM,
  title={The mass media and the national question in Udmurtia in the 1990s},
  author={Aleksandr Shkliaev and Eva Toulouze},
  journal={Nationalities Papers},
  year={2001},
  volume={29},
  pages={108 - 97}
}

• Aleksandr Shkliaev, E. Toulouze
• Published 1 March 2001
• Sociology
• Nationalities Papers

The so-called “national,” or ethnopolitical questions, whose existence has long been denied in Russia, is a significant issue in the Udmurt Republic. The Soviet propaganda machine long advanced the theme of friendship among all the peoples of the multinational USSR until glasnost', when this notion began to be questioned by society. In the minority areas ethnic questions finally emerged at the end of the 1980s and since then have occupied a prominent place in the mass media, in Udmurtia and elsewhere. This article highlights the polemic character of the debate on ethnic issues in Udmurtia, which is located in the Volga-Urals region, against a background of the particular local historical and demographic factors.