Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject History of Europe - Ages of World Wars, grade: 1 (A), University of Birmingham (Centre for Russian and East European Studies), course: Soviet Social and Economic History, language: English, abstract: This essay outlines the development of Stalin's policies on Soviet ethnic and national groups. Based on selected writings by Stalin and other original sources it shows when, how and why his approach to the national question changed over time.