Russification, « kazakhization » ou retour dans la Urheimat ? Le dilemme identitaire des Allemands du Kazakhstan

Abstract

Russian Germans, Volga Germans, Soviet Germans and finally Germans of Kazakhstan. Ever since the reign of the tsars they have been striving to preserve their cultural and linguistic identity threatened by the russification policies in their adoptive country, particularly during the Soviet regime. Is the preservation of the minority language and culture today an element of the reconstruction of their identity, or is this preservation merely linked to the perspective of a return to the historical homeland, the “Urheimat” ?