Das sowjetische Erbe
Journal: osteuropa
Year: 2023

When the Bolsheviks organized the administration of the Soviet state a hundred years ago, they did so primarily according to national-ethnographic principles. They deviated from this as soon as they saw the “interests of the Union” at risk. In territorial revisions between the Union republics after Stalin's death, economic issues were crucial. Ideological constructs such as “friendship of peoples” or “gifts” between the Union republics were not categories in Soviet spatial thinking. Today, econo