национальная политика

The Collapse of the USSR and the Creation of a New System of Interethnic Relations in the Russian Federation in the 1990s

The article analyzes the specifics of interethnic relations in Russia after the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s. The process of institutionalization of the national policy of the Russian Federation is investigated. The main directions of reforming the «Asymmetric Federation» are considered. The question of formation of the civil nation «the Russian people» is studied.

«To Pacify the Land Subject to Us»: the Views of I. A. Arsenyev on the Polish Question in the early 1860s in the Context of the National Policy of the Russian Empire

Based on a wide range of sources and archival materials the article analyzes the position of the Russian publisher and publicist I. A. Arsenyev on the Polish issue on the eve of the Polish Uprising of 1863–1864. Arsenyev, seconded to Warsaw in 1861 to compile correspondences, was a journalist of a new format. He not only objectively recorded the events that contributed to the escalation of the Russian-Polish conflict, but after analyzing them, outlined his vision of the problem in a special note, which aroused interest in the highest government circles.

The Role of the Mozdok Congress of the Terek Peoples in Establishing a Political Union between Ingushetia and the Bolsheviks

The article is devoted to the analysis of the prerequisites, the main driving forces, the results and consequences of the actions of the Bolshevik faction led by S. M. Kirov at the Mozdok congress of the Terek peoples in January 1918. The article points out that this forum was the first experience of cooperation between the Bolsheviks and the Ingush in the political sphere. At the end of 1917 Terek was engulfed in the internecine war, which Ingushetia was drawn into, and which could be turned into a tool for the extermination of entire «undesired» peoples in the region.

СОВЕТСКАЯ НАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ ПОЛИТИКА: ФАКТОРЫ УСПЕХА, УНИКАЛЬНОСТЬ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОГО ОПЫТА, ПРИЧИНЫ КРАХА

В статье исследуются основные аспекты советской национальной политики, направленной на установление и укрепление межэтнического доверия между народами бывшей Российской империи. Анализируется альтернативный проект элит титульных этносов национальных республик, стремящихся к перераспределению ресурсов в свою пользу и ограничению прав национальных меньшинств на самоопределение и самореализацию. Делается вывод о решающей роли политического этнонационализма   в реализации своего проекта развала Союза ССР.

ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ГОРСКОЙ АССР И ЕГО ВЛИЯНИЕ НА СИТУАЦИЮ В ИНГУШЕТИИ ПОСЛЕ ОКОНЧАНИЯ ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ВОЙНЫ

Статья посвящена анализу предпосылок, основных движущих сил, итогов и последствий создания  Горской Автономной советской социалистической республики в 1921 г. В статье указано, что данное государственное образование было первым опытом советского варианта горского интегризма. Данная идея была популярна как у прокоммунистических, так и антибольшевистских националистических сил. Тем самым, созданием Горской АССР Москва стремилась перехватить пропагандистские козыри у своих все еще влиятельных оппонентов в кругах горской интеллигенции.

The policy of “indigenization” in the autonomous republics of RSFSR during the 1920s (based on the materials of Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans)

The article highlights the process of “indigenization” as an element of Soviet national policy. The research has been conducted on the example of Autonomous Republic of the Volga Germans. The “indigenization” was an element of Soviet national policy in 1920s, accomplished in all the nation-state formations of the USSR both Union and autonomous. The “indigenization” was supposed to consolidate the position of “titular” nation, but also caused a whole new set of problems in interethnic relations.