Aufsatz(elektronisch)#11981
The Soviet-German Newspaper "Freundschaft" and the Cultural Transformation of the Soviet-Germans in Kazakhstan*
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 81-98
ISSN: 1465-3923
The 1970 census returns of the Soviet Union provided scholars with additional information about a hitherto little studied ethnic group, the Soviet-Germans. These figures not only broke the Germans down according to the regions and republics in which they lived, but also revealed how many still claimed German as their native language. A comparison of figures for 1959, 1970 and 1979 indicated the number making this claim had decreased considerably.