The national-territorial structure of the USSR: A “time bomb” or a “historical compromise”?
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article attempts to refute the widespread opinion in historiography that the form of organization of the USSR, consisting of ethnoterritorial formations of different status, was one of the main factors in the collapse of a single state. It is argued that the idea of federalization of Russia did not belong to the Bolsheviks, but to national parties and movements that demanded recognition of their right to national-territorial autonomy. The article substantiates the position that the national-territorial principle of the internal structure of the Soviet state contributed both to the preservation and strengthening of the national identity of Soviet ethnic groups and to the creation of a civil nation in the form of the Soviet people as a new historical community.
Author: Anatoly P. Myakshev
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405759155