CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Khripachenko, Tatiana Ivanovna |
|---|---|
| Title | National Challenges to Decentralization: Autonomy and Federation in the Russian Liberal Discourse, 1900-1914 |
| Summary | The dissertation is devoted to the analysis of the political debates on autonomy and federation between the Russian liberals and the representatives of the Finnish, Polish and Ukrainian national movements in late imperial Russia. Looking for the allies among the national movements the leadership of the Constitutional Democratic Party was open to discuss the possibility of decentralization of Russia. However, the Kadets’ initial plan for Russia’s reorganization was challenged by various national discourses regarding autonomy and federation. Moreover, the meaning of these terms essentially differed from what the Kadets initially understood by them. The main reason for the failure of an alliance of the Kadets with the national movements was a principal incompatibility of the initial assumptions of all the participants of a dialogue. This, however, did not exclude the possibility of finding a compromise, yet it could only be tactical, and did not presuppose the principal convergence of the programs regarding Russia’s reorganization. |
| Supervisor | Alexei Miller |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/h05kht01.pdf |
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