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Yakut Autonomy: Post-Imperial Political Projects of National and Soviet Intelligentsia, 1905-1922s

Student: Korobeinikov Aleksandr

Supervisor: Ivan Sablin

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

The research paper “Yakut Autonomy: Post-Imperial Political Projects of National and Soviet Intelligentsia, 1905-1922” is devoted to the analysis of post-imperial political projects of the Yakut national and party intelligentsia at the beginning of the XX century. The crisis of the Russian Empire ensured the penetration of globally circulating discourses of nationalism, self-government, education in the regions, contributing to the spread of interest in the history, traditions, language of the Yakut region from previously marginalized local actors who imagined a new political and social order both in Yakutia and in the potential Russian Republic. Investigating the processes of imagination of the post-imperial order, this work determines the main themes and directions of activity of the Yakut national intelligentsia: education, self-government (autonomy), federalization. The Yakut party intelligentsia, after the institutionalization of Soviets in oblast, used the experience of the national intelligentsia to establish the Yakut SSR in 1922. During the research some questions were posed: how did the imagination of the post-imperial order take place: mechanisms, projects and their implementation? What role did local actors play in the process of initialization a new state order? Despite existing research on the history of social movements in the Yakut region and the formation of the Yakut SSR, this work, basing on modern theoretical and methodological concepts (new imperial history, comparative study of empire and nationalism, intellectual history), fills the existing historiographic gaps.

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