Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Nationalities Policy of the First Year of the Soviet Regime

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Nationalities Policy of the First Year of the Soviet Regime

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (5)
Authors: Podyapolskiy, Sergey A.
Contact information: Podyapolskiy, Sergey A.: Law firm “Crisis Management Group” 8/9 Maerchak Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660075, Russia;
Keywords: Bolsheviks; Narkomnats; nation building; propaganda; soviet nationalities policy
Abstract: On the basis of the primary sources of references, the author presents Lenin’s nationalities policy not as a dogmatic implementation of a theoretically constructed doctrine, but as a flexible set of political tactics adequate to the current social and political situation, the task of retaining power, and other general political and economic tasks of the Soviet government. Among the tactical techniques used by the Bolsheviks at that time, the author studies declarations, promises, presents, tactical compromise, tolerance in exchange for political loyalty, using allies of the moment, forming ethnic military subdivisions, establishing central and local bodies of ethnosocial management, propaganda and campaigning, creating national and territorial autonomies and control over education institutions
Pages: 795-813
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/71371