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“The Permiak question”: Bolshevik central authorities, Russian and non-Russian provincial elites negotiating over autonomy in the early 1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Indrek Jääts
Indrek Jääts*
Affiliation:
Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
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*Email: ijaats@gmail.com
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Abstract

This is an article on Bolshevik nationalities policy and ethnic engineering, asking who, in fact, decided which populations belonged together as ethnic groups (narodnost') and thus had the right of national self-determination, and how the level of autonomy was determined for each ethnic unit. Scholars have dealt with Russian and Soviet nationalities issues for decades already, but they have turned their attention mainly to the larger nationalities (at the level of SSR, and to a lesser degree the levels of ASSR and autonomous oblast). I argue that the lower levels of national territorial autonomy in the Soviet Union (national okrug, raion, volost', and selsovet) are worthy of greater academic attention, at least from the ethnological point of view. Having this kind of low-level territorial autonomy has often been a question of to be or not to be for the small ethnic groups concerned, and hence the subject is connected with the question of preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in Russia.

Keywords

Komi-PermiaksSoviet Russianationalities policyterritorial autonomynationalism
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , March 2012 , pp. 241 - 257
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Copyright © 2012 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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