TO THE QUESTION ABOUT CREATING THE KARELIAN AUTONOMY IN 1920-1923

Abstract

This article examines the causes of autonomy in Karelia during the formation of the RSFSR and the USSR. The article aims to reflect the fact that the emergence of Karelian autonomy is a process associated more with the domestic policy of the Bolsheviks and the civil war, not close location of Finland or the activity of Finnish communists. Based on the purpose, the author sees his task to point out the very similar reasons and mechanisms that gave rise to other national and territorial autonomy in various parts of the USSR in the early 20-ies (Tatarstan, Chuvash, Mari, Komi) no matter if it was autonomous regions or autonomous republics. The author demonstrates the main historical events of 1918-1925, which are connected with the formation of the mentioned autonomous. The necessity of the detailed description is to emphasize the certain universality of the formation of the RSFSR. It should be noted that the author scrutinize the Bolshevik policy together with the events of civil war and indigenous people opposition of the official the establishment of the Soviet regime at that regions. There were used methods as follows: inductive, comparative-historical, problem-chronological, logical in the scientific work. By comparing the process of creating autonomies in the RSFSR during the civil war at very different regions of the former Russian empire, the author reflects a lot of points to match that allow talking about the creation of autonomy in Karelia as a result of local changes in the RSFSR, and Finnish neighborhood determined its external form.