--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Good point. How much of this was due to the fostering of a
> secular political
> culture by the Communist parties and regimes which,
> whatever it's other
> deformations, stressed the responsibility of the
> "nationalities" to each
> other in the common task of forging a new society?
I'm sure it accelerated rapidly during the communist period, but it was not exactly uncommon before. Lenin was the product of such a family.
Gogol is a Chuvash name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvash_people ). Bukharin, Kutuzov, Rimsy-Koraskov, and Rachmanninov are all Tatar names. Where do you think they got them from?