Abstract
The role of Russian as an amalgamating factor in uniting the nationalities within the Soviet state has been the centrepiece of Soviet language policy since the creation of the USSR. The ‘pendulum’ model of Soviet language policy, which regards it as continuously swinging between centrifugal and centripetal tendencies (Lewis 1972: 67, 87; Pool 1976: 425–6) reflects only one of its aspects, whereas its essence may be better explained by a‘gyrocompass’ model, with the language status planning of Russian as its main permanent feature. A certain temporal correlation is detectable between periods when the political line has been tightened and periods of increased attention to the promotion of Russian.
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