AN EXAMINATION OF THE POSSIBLE

@'pp roved for release by NSA on 12-01-2011 , Transparency Case# 6385J UNCLASSIFIEDAn Examination of the Possible Effects of SlavicChauvinism on the Economic and Political Developmentof the Southern Soviet Periphery (U)STA TU~ O fU.L Y EX E:MP TEditor's Note: This paper tied for Second Prize in the 1988 International Affairs Institute Essay Contest,INTRODUCTIONThe "nationalities problem" (or the "nationalities question" as it is referred to inSoviet press) is, without a doubt, one of the most se...