Nationalities Policy of the First Year of the Soviet Regime
Journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences
Year: 2018

On the basis of the primary sources of references, the author presents Lenin's nationalities policy not as a dogmatic implementation of a theoretically constructed doctrine, but as a flexible set of political tactics adequate to the current social and political situation, the task of retaining power, and other general political and economic tasks of the Soviet government. Among the tactical techniques used by the Bolsheviks at that time, the author studies declarations, promises, presents, tacti