FORMATION OF NATIONAL AUTONOMIES IN THE RSFSR IN EARLY 1920s: PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS (on the example of creating the Mordovian Autonomous Region)

Olga A. Sukhova, Olga A. Filenkova

DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-4-91-96

Key words

national policy, reforms of administrative-territorial division in the RSFSR, autonomous republic, autonomous region

Annotation

At the initial stage of the reforms in the administrative-territorial division in the conditions of the Civil War, the process of federalization hardly met any resistance from the center. By the beginning of 1921 the RSFSR included as its parts the Tatar, Kirghiz, Bashkir, Dagestan, Gorsk Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republics, autonomous regions of the Kalmyk, Mari and Chuvash peoples and Labour communes of the Germans in the Volga region and the Karelians. By 1922 21 associations were already established. It was not possible to form the Mordovian autonomous administrative-territorial unit. Strengthening greater concentration of power, lack of territory with compact residence of the Mordovian population, unformed national elite, corporate interests of provincial authorities representatives served as constraining factors in the struggle for autonomy.

References

1. Abramov V.K. Mordovskoe natsional’noe dvizhenie [Mordovian national movement]. Saransk, 2007, 180 p.
2. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Penzenskoi oblasti. Fond R-36. Opis’ 1. Dokument 455 [State archive of the Penza region. Archives R-36. Anagraph 1. Document 455].
3. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Penzenskoi oblasti. Fond R-36. Opis’ 1. Dokument 755 [State archive of the Penza region. Archives R-36. Anagraph 1. Document 755].
4. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 1235. Opis’ 119. Dokument 4a [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 1235. Anagraph 119. Document 4a].
5. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 1235. Opis’ 121. Dokument 1 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 1235. Anagraph 121. Document 1].
6. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 5677. Opis’ 1. Dokument 1 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 5677. Anagraph 1. Document 1].
7. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 5677. Opis’ 1. Dokument 7 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 5677. Anagraph 1. Document 7].
8. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 5677. Opis’ 3. Dokument 339 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 5677. Anagraph 3. Document 339].
9. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 5677. Opis’ 6. Dokument 25 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 5677. Anagraph 6. Document 25].
10. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 5677. Opis’ 9. Dokument 150 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 5677. Anagraph 9. Document 150].
11. Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Fond 5677. Opis’ 9. Dokument 350 [State archive of the Russian Federation. Archives R 5677. Anagraph 9. Document 350].
12. Mineeva E.K. Narkomnats RSFSR: tseli, zadachi, struktura [The people’s Commissariat for nationalities of the RSFSR: the goals, objectives, structure]. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2006, no. 7, pp. 23–33.
13. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii. Fond 17. Opis’ 61. Dokument 98 [Russian state archive of socio-political history. Archives 17. Anagraph 61. Document 98].
14. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii. Fond 17. Opis’ 60. Dokument 978 [Russian state archive of socio-political history. Archives 17. Anagraph 60. Document 978].
15. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial’no-politicheskoi istorii. Fond 17. Opis’ 60. Dokument 988 [Russian state archive of socio-political history. Archives 17. Anagraph 60. Document 988].
16. Steshina E.A., comp., Ovsyannikova T.V., ed. Stanovlenie gosudarstvennosti mordovskogo naroda: metodiko-bibliograficheskii material k 85-letiyu Mordovskoi avtonomii [Formation of statehood of the Mordovian people: methodological and bibliographic material for the 85^th anniversary of the Mordovian autonomy]. Saransk, 2015, 33 p.
17. Yurchenkov V.A. Mordovskaya istoriya [Mordovian history]. Saransk, 2014, 276 p.

Information about the authors

Olga A. Sukhova – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology, V.G. Belinsky Pedagogical Institute, Penza State University, Russia, Penza (suhhov747@yandex.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0658-736X).

Olga A. Filenkova – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Student Research Sector, Penza State University, Russia, Penza (filenkova_oa@mail.ru; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2925-9609).

For citations

Sukhova O.A., Filenkova O.A. FORMATION OF NATIONAL AUTONOMIES IN THE RSFSR IN EARLY 1920s: PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS (on the example of creating the Mordovian Autonomous Region). Historical Search, 2020, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 91–96. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2020-1-4-91-96 (in Russian).

Download the full article