ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a territorial dimension to state power and ethnoregional acquiescence by sketching out the rudiments of a theory of state-ethno-regional relations for 'developed socialism'. It is the basis of the uneasy compromise between territorial centralisation, on the one hand, and privileges of place. If it compares Latvian and Uzbek educational levels to the Russian population then it finds that in terms of student enrolment in institutions of higher education, the 1960s saw considerable advance towards convergence, particularly amongst Uzbeks. In combination with territorial centralisation and the consequences this has in providing a strong power base at the centre, the state able to provides, during the period of advanced socialism, ethnoregional stability. Pacifying in particular the humanistic intelligentsia has been at considerable economic cost. In heavily rural, polyglot societies like Uzbekistan it is a nationalism which is as likely to be based on local ethnic prejudices and age-old rivalries among the dominant Uzbek nationality as it is anti-Russian.
