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Item Open Access The phenomenon of ethnic deportations in the Soviet nationaly policy(1996) Kemaloğlu, Aga-Ali N.The phenomenon of the ethnic and religious deportations in the Soviet Union, which had precedents reaching back more than the half-century, are themselves an important and integral part of the Soviet history, to understand the relationship between minorities and regime and ultimate break-up of the empire. This study, which is concerned specifically with the Ahiska (Meskhetian)* Turks (a little studied group), belongs in that general classification of works dealing with the analysis and documentation of the numerous other ethnic and religious groups in the former USSR that were suffered deportations en masse from the basically European part of the Soviet Union (homeland) to Siberia, Central Asia and Kazakhstan during the Second World War by the Stalinist regime, and within half of the century was incognito for world community.Item Open Access Soviet Transcaucasus 1917-1945 : nations in transition(2013) Aksoy, DidemThis thesis analyzes the nationalities policy of the Soviet Union with a special emphasis on three major Transcaucasian nationalities, i.e. Georgians, Azerbaijanis and Armenians. The thesis focuses on the Soviet nationalities policy and attempts to shed light on the history of these three Transcaucasian nationalities within the context of this policy. Soviet nationalities policy, even if disparately applied for any nationality under the Soviet rule, resulted in significant consequences for all the nationalities of the Union. Within this framework, this study aims to explain both idiosyncratic and alike evolutions of Georgians, Azerbaijanis and Armenians, at the same time, under the Soviet rule. Finally, it argues that Soviet policies, specifically the nationalities policy, played the major role in the transformation of Transcaucasian nationalities and determined the current dynamics of the region