title: Soviet Nationalities Policy of the 1960s - early 1980s
abstract: The analyzed period was characterized by a combination of three factors. The first of them is a controversial and largely unfavorable dynamics of socio-demographic and ethno-cultural processes. This refers to the uneven growth of the number of different ethnic communities, the demographic crisis of the Russian ethnos (caused by, among other things, "an echo of war"), the continued heterogeneity of the social structure of Soviet ethnic groups, agrarian overpopulation of some Union republics, the 
journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences