"…РАБОТА ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЯ ПРОТЕКАЛА ВСЕ ВРЕМЯ СОГЛАСОВАННО С ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ БУР(ЯТСКОЙ) РЕСПУБЛИКИ В СООТВЕТСТВИИ С ОБЩЕЙ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИНИЕЙ И ТЕМИ ДИРЕКТИВАМИ… КОИ ПОЛУЧАЛИСЬ ИМ ОТ ЦИКА И СНК": О КНИГЕ Б.Ц. ЖАЛСАНОВОЙ, Л.В. КУРАСА, Е.Ю. ШАПОВАЛА "У ИСТОКОВ ФЕДЕРАЛИЗМА: ИСТОРИЯ ПРЕДСТАВИТЕЛЬСТВА БУРЯТ-МОНГОЛЬСКОЙ АССР ВО ВЦИК РСФСР В ДОКУМЕНТАХ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО АРХИВА РЕСПУБЛИКИ БУРЯТИЯ" (ИРКУТСК, 2022. 540 С.)

Abstract

The article analyses the publication of the document collection related to the history of the foundation, development and the evolution of the Buryat-Mongol representative office in the 1920s – 1930s. The edition includes 127 documents that were found by the authors-compilers at the State Archives of the Russian Federation and the State Archives of the Buryat Republic. To date, it is the only publication that helps to fully uncover all the complex activities of the Buryat-Mongol national representative office in the first decades after the formation of the Buryat-Mongol Republic. The published historical sources made it possible to profoundly and thoroughly bring to light many issues and stories of that eventful period in the activities of the People’s Commissariat for Nationalities (Narkomnats) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), and also in the activities of the Department for Nationalities’ Affairs of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of the RSFSR. The period under discussion was characterized by a challenging, contradictory but purposeful transition from fragmentation to centralization and the formation of national representative missions. The aim of those state bodies was a political, social economic and cultural development of different nations of the country. The published documents reveal that the representative missions were given an important function in the implementation of the state national policy, the one they successfully accomplished their job. The publication of the archival documents enabled the re-establishment of the activities of the Buryat-Mongol representative office within the context of the history of our Motherland and also made it possible to attract the attention of researchers and the wide public to the key events in its history of Russia and to the whole of the history of the Buryat Republic.