CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Korobeinikov, Aleksandr Sergeevich |
|---|---|
| Title | Imagining Post-Imperial Order: Nationalism, Regionalism, Autonomism, and State Socialism in Northeast Russia, 1905-1922 |
| Summary | Focusing on the works and intellectual activity of the Yakut intelligentsia (the national and Bolshevik), the Thesis examines the development of post-imperial political imagination in Russia’s Northeast region (Yakutia). The formation of the Yakut intellectuals occurred due to the circulation of wider imperial as well as global discourses on nationalism, anti-colonialism, socialism, regionalism during the crisis of the Russian Empire. By discussing the Yakut marginal, even colonial conditions, the Yakut national intellectuals followed the self-governmental aspirations, inherited from the Siberian regionalists, which became commonplace for many Siberian ‘indigenous’ movements. Despite the Stalinist myth, according to which the Soviet Union (and its social engineers) for the first time in Russian history produced the autonomists discourse in the Northeast, it was the Yakut intelligentsia who developed the self-governmental (autonomist) rhetoric during the first decades of the twentieth century. Regional political and social cooperation between the Yakut national and Bolshevik intellectuals during the imperial transformation contributed to the Soviet central government’s decisions regarding the Yakut issues. Hence, the Yakut intellectuals became mediators of the post-imperial political projects in the Northeast that resulted in the establishment of Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922. |
| Supervisor | Shaw, Charles |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/korobeinikov_aleksan.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University