I have been wondering how the USSR compared to western nations on issues related to identity and oppression. I can't seem to find any sources that don't scream anti-communist propaganda though and was wondering if anyone could help point the way?

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    They did, Siberian indigenous peoples did suffer, particularly on the Bering Strait border region. Peoples who had ties to both sides of the strait got fucked by both governments.

    There's a good recent book on this and the history of the strait in general: https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Coast-Environmental-History-Bering/dp/0393635163, and the author went on The Dig about it, here, and Sean's Russia Blog here.

    On more insular indigenous people, there's also some very recent work on the Kazakh famine, see an interview about it here

    There's also this recent work on race in Imperial Russia and how it continued/changed during Soviet Union.