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ABSTRACT The collapse of central power in the Russian Empire 1917 left the peoples of the Caucasus alone in the midst of the havoc of the Great War. While political elites were forced to detach the region from Soviet Russia, they simultaneously realized that Transcaucasia could survive only in unity, and thus formed first a Commissariat and then a Federation. Yet geopolitics, the shared imperial legacy, the economic prognoses, the complex ethnic demography, and the existing boundary disagreements ultimately made federation impossible. Nevertheless, the victorious Allies of the Great War saw their interests in the Caucasian “package”, advising that a Federation or a Confederation be created in the region. This article examines the geopolitical significance of the discourse surrounding this proposed Caucasian and Transcaucasian federation/confederation.
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Caucasus Survey is a new peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and independent journal, concerned with the study of the Caucasus – the independent republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, de facto entities in the area and the North Caucasian republics and regions of the Russian Federation. Also covered are issues relating to the Republic of Kalmykia, Crimea, the Cossacks, Nogays, and Caucasian diasporas. Caucasus Survey aims to advance an area studies tradition in the humanities and social sciences about and from the Caucasus, connecting this tradition with core disciplinary concerns in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, cultural and religious studies, economics, political geography and demography, security, war and peace studies, and social psychology. Research enhancing understanding of the region’s conflicts and relations between the Russian Federation and the Caucasus, internationally and domestically with regard to the North Caucasus, features high in our concerns.
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