Language policy in the Russian Empire: legal and constitutional aspect
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https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v33i.4635Parole chiave:
istruzione, madrelingua, diritti legali, costituzione, lingua di istruzioneAbstract
The article focuses on the problem of the choice of language of education in the Russian Empire taking the aspect of exercising an individual’s legal and constitutional rights as point of view. The authors analyse the experience of imperial Russia as a multilingual society in educating children both in their native languages and in Russian. According to the article, in the 18th century Russia the government had no definite language policy and the majority of the population were illiterate. The researchers define the causes of the policy of russification in the ethnic regions of the empire and the attempts of ethnic minorities to provide mother tongue education for the children in the various ethnic regions of the empire. The article goes on to say that Russian missionaries and teachers played a significant role in educating the indigenous peoples of the country and providing the non-alphabetical minorities with newly made alphabets on the basis of Cyrillic script. The authors analyse the results of the imperial educational policy and their impact on the life of individuals.
