Petr S. Kabytov
Key words
National-territorial autonomy, national-state construction, the Middle Volga region.
Abstract
The review evaluates the monograph, in which the author examines the theory of national-state construction of the Soviet Russia in the 1920s–1930s and its implementation on the basis of a wide range of unpublished sources. The issues related to the creation and activities carried out by the RSFSR People’s Commissariat for Nationalities and its national departments in such a multi-ethnic region of the country as the Middle Volga region are described. The author pays special attention to the peculiarities of the evolvement of the Mari, Mordovian and Chuvash autonomous republics. The difficulties in the process of determining the administrative boundaries, socio-economic and cultural development of the national-territorial autonomies of the Mari, the Mordovians and the Chuvash as well as the policy for the development of ethno-territorial groups are revealed. The author of the review notes the strengths of the monographic research, which include the scientific novelty of the research, disclosure of the main prerequisites for the formation of a special asymmetric federation in the Soviet Russia based on the national-territorial principle, the practical significance of the work. The emphasis is also placed on the analytical comparative analysis of evolvement processes of the autonomies of the Mari, the Mordovians and the Chuvash – the peoples of the multinational Middle Volga region. As the strengths of the monograph, the author of the review emphasizes the methodology of historical research, which can be traced throughout the work.
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About the author
Petr S. Kabytov – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Russian History, Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Koroleva, Russia, Samara (don.kabytov2012@yandex.ru).
For citations
Kabytov P.S. REVIEW OF THE MONOGRAPH: MINEEVA E.K. FORMATION OF THE MARI, MORDOVIAN AND CHUVASH ASSR AS NATIONAL-TERRITORIAL AUTONOMIES (1920–1930s). CHEBOKSARY, CHUVASH STATE UNIVERSITY PUBL., 2009, 594 p. Historical Search, 2021, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 79–82. (in Russian).
