Why might a policy like russification produce results that are opposite those intended?
Russification has been a Russian policy of attempting to
integrate and assimilate non-Slavic communities during Imperial,
Soviet, and modern times. Russification involves creating it as an
official language, secularization, and changing names to Slavic
patronymic and family name ending conventions. Opposing factors to
Russification continue in the form of it being seen as attempts to
eradicate national, tribal and religious identity. Russification
forms a core to the conflict of claims to Caucuses, and to the
higher issue of Islam in Russia.