The following article has been submitted by the Committee to Defend Ivan Dzyuba and Vyacheslav Chornovil Dzyuha and Chornovil are two Ukrainian socialist oppositionists recent- Ukrainian village and the Russified city. This in ly sentenced to long terms of imprisonment and exile by the Stalinet revime m the soviet Onion.
As part of an international campaign the Committee will be circuiating a petition shortly, negated by Stalin. The tikrainian Communist leader Internationalisin or Russification (2.75)
With the intensification of social and coonomic contradictions in the Soviet Union, the nationality question is taking a vital place it the programmes of chose in political oppostion to the Soviet bureuneTo date the most concise and extensive statement or this problem is found in Junmaronziam or Russification written in 1965 by Ivan Dayuba, an oppositionist from the Ukrainian S.S.R. A prominent figure in the Ukrainian dissident movement, he fell victim to the massive arrests swooping the Ukrainian Hepublic in 1972. Dryuba, held in solitary continement for nine months until his secret trial was sentenced last March to live venrs impcisonment and five years oxile The central thrust of Internationate or Restin politan, mating the national problem to tee ban unmasking of the myth of the Soviet Triendship ol citions Orvata does this by documenting excenHe argues that in its ideological form, Russian Great Power chauvinism, bistarcally rooted in the Tsarist empire as the ideology of the Russian bareasonicy and Hussophile pelty bour roisic, was later reamected By the October Ravelution, Dayuba correctly drawe hy Stalin.
The term Ruskan people & now being used in plo Ha cass analess ce complet mistoric economic and social developments. The elecification of the Great Ruman is being accompanied by the denigration of the other Republican national cultures and bogagos policy which equates the amalgamation of natiens Dayuba argues that the unrest growing amroop tae roung werkers and sections of tho intelligentsia in (crate is due to national oppression, a result of Ghe began when Stulin sent his men into LOraine in 1932 o repress the process of Ukrainiation Lenin and the Party always stressed how impertant it was for the prolelest and for socklist construction future can in no way be wed as the thuoretion to resoive the conflict that exists in Ukraine between the Ukrainian speaking polsanty and the predom inantly Rowin speaking proletariat, between the particular is the meaning of the policy of Ukraination". (p 193), This programme, by which the prokalliance with and leadership over the peasantry, was ship was liquidated and contain respects of Ukrainian calture were declured counter-revolutionary. For militants conperned with tbe struegle for national liberation, internationaliom or Russification is important because it extensively outlines and carefully docaments the real effects of applying this policy of inequality, which results in Russfication and colonisatandly for revolutionary Marxists, Dzyuba analyse a to a social one. He points out bow the nationa divisions in Ukraine exacerbage the sociel divisions. and omphasises the consoguvones ol national opression for socialist democracy. He reaches the conclusion that the present implementation of the nationati ties policy impedes the cause of socialist democratison and is objectively neuctionary. Dryuba's attempt to come to grips analytically with the nationalities probient is of central concern to those inforested in rovolution in the Soviet Union because he points out the continsing importance of the demeratic veneral proletarine cause, exprowing the belief that ties policy is basically Statist, Deyuha points out of Luminise. Attacking the present policy \ basic assumption that the nationalities problem was solved attention to the fact that for Lenin Ibe October Revolution solved only the problom of formal equality. Actual equaliry pould only be achined atter a period of natal vocalist coratruetion Doyuba correlly unalysos the ercor in a nationalities amalsamation as the patizational and nobitice. nion o de trailirit for the clost stroeplu. Ther spcaking of assimilation, as opposed to pollinst internationalism, Tana sow the former as boing onlicous and preitrie cob aller the achierment of world social. The comment on tho guideline lor today's policy of state-planned a similation of nations, within what is a Union of Sacialist Soviet Ropublics, in ordar lo sentenc a single Russian speakine nation. Deyuba sates: In effect we ate already setting ourselves the task of amalgamating nations within a single country now. long betore the victory of socialise on a world scale and long before the victory of communism in that very same slople country. Deyuh argues that a policy based on the exclusneness of one langunge sod culture Impedes the path to national equility which is indispensible to true internationalism.
Ideological and real national appression, lifty years after the October Revolution, le a phenomenon more ary days. This appression is maintained in the intoroses of a definite sodal formation. The analyss of this crucial aspect of national oppression would lave anevitably led Dayuba to a revolationary pasition which he GREEK STRIKE stopsshort of Despite such points of citicism it i pralitablo to look at this hook for its importance ties in focusing our attention on the vital role the nationcorrect formulation in evolutionaty Marxist theaty. As a document of opposition Dayuba's book raises fundamental queations of organization for opposition in the Soviet Union. Dayuba's imprisonment is practic tinalists who believed that the Soviet bureaacracy would lake heed of, or ewn allow, independent political de bato. It has become obvious that tefotmist tactics have served only to provide socialist victims Tor KGB intercocations and Soviet prisoos Public appeals to the bareaucracy have peosen fruitlos. it bas become obvious that the immediate task of Soviet appositionalists is to formulate a concat tboory Tor political organization as a basis for revolutionary change in the Soviet linion (British Section of the Fourth Internationali 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1 I would like more infor matan about the IMG and its activities.
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Red Weekly 12 October 1973 Pag: 7
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sively the reality of ideological and national oppression Thiradds to, rather than detracts from the importance caused by the present Soviet treatment of rationalitics of this question. Arguing that today's Soviet national-
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