Incidentally if I remember correctly Lenin's father was a bit of an activist for the Chuvash, having schools taught in the Chuvash language and so forth. I wonder if that influenced Lenin on the nationalities issue. (http://www.usrbc.org/Members-Only/Russian%20Government%20and%20Regions/Regions/Chuvashia.htm )
"People and History
"The ancestors of the Chuvash were tribes of ancient Bulgars and Suvars, which moved to the middle Volga region in the 7th and 8th centuries. The Chuvash nationality was formed from the part of the Bulgar population that did not adopt Islam in the 15th and 16th centuries. Chuvashia joined the Russian Empire in 1551, and in June 2001 the republic celebrated the 450th anniversary of its union with Russia. Chuvashia was initially split between the Kazan and Simbirsk districts, and the Chuvash autonomous region was formed in 1920. Since 1992, the Chuvash Republic has been a sovereign republic forming a part of the Russian Federation."
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yakov Sverdlov? I have no idea.
>
> Lenin was German and Jewish on one side of his
> family
> (his mom was a Lutheran) and Chuvash (that is,
> Turkic)
> and Kalmyk (that is, Tatar/Mongol) on the other.
> (Which is quite visible in his face). I dated a
> Chuvash girl for a while who liked to talk about
> this.
> Lenin was from an area right by Chuvashia.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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