Educational Assimilation: Conversion of Schools to the Metropole's Language

As part of educational assimilation, aggressors may carry out a total, forced conversion of the teaching process in all educational institutions to the colonizer's language. Depriving the Indigenous people of the right to educate their children in their native language leads to a rapid rupture of cultural continuity and the complete integration of the local population into the aggressor's information space.

ID: T0114.003
Sub-technique of:  T0114
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0053 Creation of a Single "Soviet People" (1958–1970)

Legislative conversion of educational institutions: «The resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the transition of Ukrainian schools to Russian as the language of instruction»[1].

S0008 Government

Destruction of the basic level of schooling in the native language: "A complete ban on primary education in the Ukrainian language"[1].

S0008 Government

Russification of higher education: "A ban on... teaching in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"[1].

S0008 Government

Elimination of education in the native language: "Ukrainian Sunday schools were closed"[1].

S0008 Government

Displacement of national schools after the occupation of new territories: «After the 'liberation' of Western Ukraine — the closure of some Ukrainian schools and the opening of Russian ones»[1].

S0008 Government

Legislative conversion of educational institutions: «The resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the transition of Ukrainian schools to Russian as the language of instruction»[1].

S0008 Government

The 1938 resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee on the liquidation of all national minority schools and the mandatory introduction of large-scale Russian-language instruction in all non-Russian schools[2].

C0080 NKVD National Operations and Institutional Russification (1937–1939)

The 1938 resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee on the liquidation of all national minority schools and the mandatory introduction of large-scale Russian-language instruction in all non-Russian schools[2].

S0012 Occupation and Controlled Administrations

General Denikin's occupation policy aimed at destroying Ukrainian culture by abolishing the right to education in one's native language and by the outright closure of Ukrainian schools[3].

G0009 Russian Empire

Destruction of the basic level of schooling in the native language: "A complete ban on primary education in the Ukrainian language"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Russification of higher education: "A ban on... teaching in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Elimination of education in the native language: "Ukrainian Sunday schools were closed"[1].

C0044 Russification of Education and Religion (1769–1786)

Destruction of the basic level of schooling in the native language: "A complete ban on primary education in the Ukrainian language"[1].

C0044 Russification of Education and Religion (1769–1786)

Russification of higher education: "A ban on... teaching in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"[1].

C0074 Second Armed Invasion and Resource Depletion (1919)

General Denikin's occupation policy aimed at destroying Ukrainian culture by abolishing the right to education in one's native language and by the outright closure of Ukrainian schools[3].

C0052 Stalinist Terror and the End of Ukrainization (1922–1939)

Displacement of national schools after the occupation of new territories: «After the 'liberation' of Western Ukraine — the closure of some Ukrainian schools and the opening of Russian ones»[1].

C0046 The Valuev Circular: Ban on the Language and Schools (1862–1869)

Elimination of education in the native language: "Ukrainian Sunday schools were closed"[1].

G0010 USSR

Displacement of national schools after the occupation of new territories: «After the 'liberation' of Western Ukraine — the closure of some Ukrainian schools and the opening of Russian ones»[1].

G0010 USSR

Legislative conversion of educational institutions: «The resolution of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the transition of Ukrainian schools to Russian as the language of instruction»[1].

G0010 USSR

The 1938 resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee on the liquidation of all national minority schools and the mandatory introduction of large-scale Russian-language instruction in all non-Russian schools[2].

G0014 White Movement (AFSR)

General Denikin's occupation policy aimed at destroying Ukrainian culture by abolishing the right to education in one's native language and by the outright closure of Ukrainian schools[3].

References

  1. Лариса Якубова, большая команда. (2013). Відносини держави, суспільства і особи під час створення радянського ладу в Україні (1917 – 1938 рр.).