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The Struggle for Soviet Bashkiria 1917-1923

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Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank*
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University of Texas, San Antonio
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The general picture of early Soviet nationality policy has been one in which Moscow embarked on an inexorable path of centralization immediately after 1917. While there is much truth to this portrait it ignores the persistent rivalries within local party organizations and among the non-Great Russian nationalities. Bashkiria in the years 1917-23 is a case in point. The struggles over the creation and development of a Soviet Bashkiria touched off an intense round of acrimonious conflicts there and in Moscow among Great Russian, Bashkir, and Tatar cadres that was only resolved by the imposition of centralized authority during the twenties. The significance of this experience lies not only in its typifying the complex mosaic out of which Soviet nationality policy evolved, but also in the profound impact the question of Bashkiria had for the development of the Sultangalievist national deviation in the middle twenties.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1983 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © 1983 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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