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“Russification” as a book category encompasses works that explore the spread and imposition of Russian language, culture, institutions, and political control across the multiethnic territories of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the post-Soviet sphere. Titles in this category examine state policy and everyday experience—language laws, schooling, administration, migration and settlement, religious policy, censorship, and security—alongside the responses of affected communities, from adaptation and hybridity to resistance and cultural preservation. The collection spans scholarly histories, political and sociolinguistic studies, ethnography, memoirs and oral histories, and fiction that dramatizes identity, belonging, and loss. Covering periods from the 18th century to the present, it situates Russification within broader debates on imperialism, nationalism, and decolonization, acknowledging that the term can denote both coercive assimilation and more ambivalent forms of cultural influence.

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