ГОРСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА И А. ДЕНИКИН: ФАКТОРЫ НЕСОСТОЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ АНТИБОЛЬШЕВИСТСКОГО АЛЬЯНСА

Abstract

The article explores the problems of interaction between the government of the Mountainous Re-public and the Volunteer Army in the late 1918-1919. It identifies the factors that hindered the consolidation of these actors in the revolutionary period in the North Caucasus region. It is noted that despite the common tasks associated with the fight against the Bolsheviks, the Mountainous Republic and A. Denikin were divided by insurmountable contradictions: after the Bolsheviks came to power, the mountainous figures embarked on building an independent state, while the White administration fought to preserve the integrity of the space of the collapsed Russian Em-pire. Furthermore, the article emphasizes that the vulnerable position of the Mountainous Repub-lic, lacking a combat-ready army, broad social base among the indigenous population, and politi-cal authority at the time under consideration, did not allow the White authorities to consider the mountain democratic political elite as a force whose alliance would have a significant impact on the outcome of the struggle against Bolshevism in the region.