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Not sure why you blame USSR in this topic, as far as I know, it supported regional languages and printed many books, newspapers and magazines in the languages o
by jerry40 9y ago
Not sure why you blame USSR in this topic, as far as I know, it supported regional languages and printed many books, newspapers and magazines in the languages of its republics. I bet that books at that period were much cheaper than they're now.
- Mediterraneo10 9y ago"it supported regional languages and printed many books, newspapers and magazines in the languages of its republics." The big boom in minority-language publishing came in the 1920s and early 1930s, when there were major drives to improve minority-language literacy and translate as a rule higher-education teaching materials into local languages. However, starting from Stalin, minority-language publishing was reduced to little more than a token effort, mostly socialist-realist poetry or fiction and newspapers of exceedingly local concern. Furthermore, the print runs for minority-language books were minuscule, even for very large minorities like the Tatars. It wasn't until glasnost that minority-language publishing took off again.
- jerry40 9y agoI grew up in a little republic which is smaller than Tatar Republic and we hadn't problems with the national literature. Of course it wasn't so rich, I've never managed to find Ulysses in that language. I have an impression that when Moscow sent plans like "to rise X new writers and to print out Y new books in the ______ language" , local party members were catching people on the streets to create new republican poets of them.
- akoncius 9y agosorry, I mixed two different things which are kind of same - Russian empire before USSR and USSR. in both periods Lithuania was occupied by Russia. so my point is still the same - resistance against agressor is possible even for small countries.