[lbo-talk] Swiss voters back ban on minarets

[Chris Doss]

Specifically, only Orthodox Christians (or Catholics in Poland) could be enserfed. Muslims were also exempt from conscription until 1916, when it was extended in an attempt to get more troops for the front, this leading to a revolt in what is now Kazakhstan.

I'm not sure if the notion of minorities, as understood in the US or UK, even makes sense in the RE or USSR, or any big imperial/federative polity. Were Indians a minority in the British Empire, or the Welsh? Or Germans in the Roman Empire?

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Er, cultural and religious minorities often had greater legal rights than did Orthodox Russians in the Russian Empire. The RE was ruled by a multiethnic elite. It wasn't ruled by Russians.