Great Russian chauvinism

Great Russian chauvinism (Russian: великорусский шовинизм, romanized: velikorussky shovinizm) is a term defined by the early Soviet government officials, most notably Vladimir Lenin, to describe an ideology of the "dominant exploiting classes of the nation, holding a dominant (sovereign) position in the state, declaring their nation as the "superior nation". In the 1920s, Lenin promoted the policy of Korenizatsiia, for the Bolshevik party to defend the rights of oppressed nations within the former Russian Empire to self-determination, equality, and minority language rights.

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