Over the past 15 to 20 years, the number of publications about the national policy of the Soviet state has increased dramatically in the United States. The growing interest of American bourgeois historians in these issues is largely due to political motives related to the problem of orientation of the "third world", with the search for contradictions and "centrifugal forces" within our country, with the desire to obscure in the eyes of the world community racial and national conflicts in our own country. As you know, the national policy of the state is one of the essential indicators by which the peoples of other countries (especially those fighting for their independence) judge the advantages of a particular social system. The American sociologist A. Inkeles explicitly writes that national politics is one of the most important aspects of the comparative characteristics of the socialist and capitalist systems in the course of "peaceful competition" between them, especially in the eyes of the peoples of Asia and Africa. In this regard, he calls for further development in the United States of the study of national relations in the Soviet country1 . If in the 20s and 30s, for example, Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists - emigrants and their epigones-mainly spoke in the foreign press on the history of Ukraine, now these problems are reflected in the works of authors with a solid scientific reputation; If earlier, as the American historian S. Zenkovsky notes, Soviet Central Asia was mainly interested in In the 1950s, scientists turned their attention to this area in the form of "tourists and politicians" .2 The history of national relations in the USSR attracted the attention of many US academic institutions. Harvard University and its Russian Research Center have become "the main center for Russian-Islamist studies in the country." 3 Soviet national politics is also studied at the Russian Institute of Columbia University, Yale University, the Institute of Soviet and Easte ... Читать далее