The article analyzes plots with requests from the Nogai Mirzas of the 16th century about sending to them from Moscow certain gold seals and signet rings. Drawing on Ugra, Kazakh and Caucasian material, the author concludes that these items were complained by Orthodox sovereigns to their nominal subjects who lived in the territories once united by the Golden Horde. An assumption is made that at an earlier stage, golden hanging seals (letters of letters behind a gold seal) and seal rings were an obligatory element of the Horde investiture in relation to the peoples subject to the khans. Starting from the second half of the 15th century. Moscow adopted these items, complained from senior to junior, to build legal relations with peoples who had recently entered the sphere of influence of the Russian state. This step became one of the prerequisites that made the Orthodox sovereigns the moral and political heirs of the ideas of Genghis Khan. The flexible and patient policy of the Moscow state contributed to the transfer of the charisma of the great conqueror from his descendants to the Russian grand dukes and tsars. In many ways, this was the key to Russia’s successful emergence as a Eurasian empire.
Sub-regions of Eurasia (from ancient times to the present day)
Investiture, Russian state of the 15th-16th centuries, Nogai Horde, Ugra, Kazakh Khanate, Golden Horde, paiza, letter of grant with a golden seal
The article is devoted to one of the key events in the Eastern policy of the Comintern – the Congress of Peoples in Baku in September 1920. During the congress, leading figures of the international communist movement and invited persons spoke at its sessions. One of these invited persons was Enver Pasha, a member of the Young Turk triumvirate. His speech became possible due to the position of the Soviet government, which agreed on his arrival on the eve of the Congress. During the Congress, Enver Pasha received a platform to express his views, the opportunity to meet with representatives of the Muslim national liberation movement from all over the world. The information he collected was later used to develop his own political program, and also helped him better understand the nuances of the situation in Central Asia. Despite the warm welcome on the streets of Baku, he suffered a fiasco at the Congress itself. His report was cut short before he could speak, and he was labeled as an instigator of world war. The leadership of the Congress made it clear to him that they did not consider him a candidate for a return to power in Turkey, preparing for him the role of coordinator of a pan-Muslim anti-colonialist agenda.
Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, Enver Pasha, Islam in Eurasia
The paper provides an analysis of the processes of development of industrial complexes in Eurasian macroregions, united by geographic specifics (longitudinal extent north-south, determined by the features of the geographical landscape) – that is, the Volga region and the Urals. The economic development of these vast regions which took shape within several waves of industrialization overlapped with their historically formed frontier character. A variety of combinations of resources (fossil, transport, energy, labor) became the basis for a number of development projects, relatively less studied than the development projects of the Siberian macroregion, but, perhaps, no less significant for the history of Russia and Eurasia as a whole. However, the results of a century of accelerated industrial development are not limited to the economic shift: among its other results are the distribution of a significant part of the all-Russian intellectual and cultural potential to the Volga and Ural regions, the formation of a network of largest cities, and the formation of concepts of territorial identity that interacted in a unique way with the ethnocultural diversity of the region.
Volga, Urals, industrialization, frontier regions, industrial regions
Dubova, N.A., Zagrebin, A.E., Kalandarov, T.S.
The article reviews the historiography of the Tajik ethnography research, both on the basis of literature and archival documents. The authors are convinced that, for the most part, the scientific study of Tajik ethnography belongs to Russian and Soviet scientists in 19 – 20 centuries. The accession of Central Asia to Russia led to a special interest in the East in the advanced circles of the Russian public. Tajiks took a special place among these peoples. The study of Tajik ethnography expanded significantly in the post-October period. The authors note the important role of the Society for the study of Tajikistan and Iranian peoples beyond its borders, as the first scientific community of the Soviet period. Established in 1925, the Society financed the first ethnographic expeditions of Soviet scientists to study the ethnography of Tajiks. Due to the declassification of archival materials, the authors managed to use documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (“GA RF”) and the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (“RGASPI”). The role of researchers at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is emphasized in the article, not only in the study of Tajik ethnography, but also in the training of academic staff for Tajikistan.
Tajiks, historiography, ethnographic study, Russian scientists, ethnographic school, cooperation
The article examines the issues of formation and transformation of national autonomies within the RSFSR, and then within the USSR in the period before 1936 in the region, currently designated in political geography as Central Asia. The issues of the national policy of the Soviet state, the relationship of the Bolsheviks with representatives of the national elites of the former Steppe and Turkestan governor-generals, the Bukhara Emirate and the Khanate of Khiva and a number of adjacent territories, the formation of the principles of administrativeterritorial division, as inherited from the previous Russian Empire, the Russian Republic and existing in the international law of the time, and also ones developed during the disengagement itself are touched. A classification of the principles of demarcation is proposed, the transformation of their priority is traced depending on the time of application, the status of the subjects they were applied, and other internal and external factors. The processes of national souvereignization and Soviet federalism in the pre-war period are analyzed. The source base consists of the published materials and archival documents of diplomatic nature, materials of party discussions, personal documents and, especially, office documentation of bodies directly involved in national-territorial demarcation, including those specially formed for this purpose. A significant part of documents from the Moscow archives - the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Archive of Economics - is being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. An attempt is being made to determine the role of central, republican and local party, Soviet and economic bodies in the process of demarcation. The economic aspects of demarcation are examined separately, including the activities of the Liquidation Commission, which was involved in the distribution of property - using a territorial approach while dividing territories, it combined territorial and extraterritorial approaches when demarcating production, agricultural, credit, financial and logistics business entities. The need of expansion of the chronological framework of the process of national-state delimitation in Middle Asia and Kazakhstan is substantiated, primarily depending on the final determination of the status of the subjects of national entities (autonomous region, autonomous republic, union republic) and the determination of the main perimeter of the borders, which have largely retained their outlines before the collapse of the USSR and the formation of new independent states. Various options for implementing demarcation projects are analyzed against the background and in connection with all-Union and republican processes, as well as inter-republican relations. The conclusion is made about the progressiveness of the process of national-state delimitation, which eliminated many social contradictions and reduced the conflict potential in the Central Asian region.
National-state demarcation, liquidation measures, Middle Asia, Kazakhstan, USSR, Russia, Central Asia
A sociological and ethnopsychological research was conducted in a number of universities in Moscow and Minsk in 2020 to study the image of Russia and Belarus from the point of view of students of the two countries. In the conditions of information and sanctions pressure on Russia and Belarus, it was important to study how Russian and Belarusian youth react to the existing conditions? What ethnic characteristics do young people attribute to each other? In what cases do young people feel a sense of pride and patriotism for their country? The attitude of young people to the authorities in their own and neighboring countries was also studied. The results of the study showed that despite the complex ethno-political situation in the world, the youth of Russia and Belarus demonstrate a positive attitude to their own country and the people of their country’s neighbor.
image of Russia and Belarus, ethnic stereotypes of Russians and Belarusians. Sense of pride and patriotism, ethnic identity of Russians and Belarusians, attitude to the authorities of their own country and the neighboring country