The union integration of the Eurasian ethnic communities: political projects in the history of Russia

Vyacheslav Dolzhikov,V Dolzhikov

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185505001

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the objective prerequisites and authorial constitutional projects of the union integration of the ethnic communities of Eurasia on the basis of extensive documentary material. The author considers and compares the projects developed by V. I. Lenin, A. D. Sakharov, O. O. Suleimenov, and N. A. Nazarbayev. In the author’s opinion, the convergent evolutionary model of the renewal of the union statehood, developed in 1989 by Academician A. D. Sakharov in cooperation with leading legal experts, was the most realistic. This project took into account the real advantages of the two conflicting world political systems: capitalist and socialist. The author concludes that the integration process on the territory of Eurasia is due to a number of historical circumstances and factors and is of an organic nature. Consequently, the modern process of reintegration of the ethnic communities of the subcontinent in one way or another has a perspective.

Highlights

In ethnological and geopolitical terms, the problem discussed below undoubtedly retains its scientific relevance to the present day.in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Russia as a Eurasian empire was formed during the stage-by-stage integration of diverse territorial and ethnic entities that had entered it
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Russia as a Eurasian empire was formed during the stage-by-stage integration of diverse territorial and ethnic entities that had entered it
It is difficult to recognize the definition of Russia in the period of the empire as a unitary state

Summary

Introduction

In ethnological and geopolitical terms, the problem discussed below undoubtedly retains its scientific relevance to the present day. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Russia as a Eurasian empire was formed during the stage-by-stage integration of diverse territorial and ethnic entities that had entered it. The Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Finland, the Bukhara Emirate, the Kokand and Khiva khanates, the Uryanghai Territory, and other enclaves had autonomous authorities, their own legislation, armed forces and police, as well as local self-government. The majority of non-Russian peoples could use administrative autonomy and self-government at the level of local ethnic communities (“foreign volosts,” “kurultai,” “Steppe Duma,” etc.) [2]. In addition to the features of the statehood of a unitary type, the features of the union prototype are seen in the system of internal governance of the Russian empire. The ruling communist party could, for decades, exploit a doctrinally alien idea to it, if in reality there were no fundamental prerequisites for its implementation

Building the Red Empire

Sakharov’s project

Eurasian union after the collapse of the USSR