Formation Of National State System Of The North Caucasus Peoples (1917–1936)

Naturally, to achieve this highest level, the perspicacious wisdom of people was required, firstly, to overcome the barriers that, due to a combination of reasons, sometimes arose on this thorny path, and secondly, in order not to harbor an insurmountable historical offense that tends to be transmitted from generation to generation. Undoubtedly, such a statement is not, in the words of Eric Hobsbawm, "the result of conscious blindness" or an illusory idea of those complex contradictory processes that took place in the North Caucasus during the period when its peoples were drawn into the orbit of the Russian state. This article examines the nation-state building in the North Caucasus as a complex and controversial process, although generally progressive. From 1917 to 1936, within the framework of several stages, the practical implementation of the Bolshevik plans for the creation of autonomies for the mountain peoples was carried out. The authors of the article support the following point of view. With rare exceptions, Soviet scientists began the reckoning of this practice in the spring of 1918, that is, from the moment the Terek Republic was proclaimed. In the 1990s and subsequent decades, these frameworks were quite logically expanded in new studies, at least in terms of events. The presented article is devoted to the analysis of these aspects. 2357-1330 © 202 Published by European Publisher.