SOCIALIST NATION-BUILDING: EXPORT OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION TO THE EAST

Abstract

The article investigates the role of the Buryat Bolsheviks in the process of creating the Buryat-Mongolian autonomy of the RSFSR. The emphasis is made on the fact that they considered the national autonomy not so much as an institution contributing to the development and preservation of the ethnic specificity of the Buryats, but rather as a tool that No 9 (9), декабрь, 2019 г. could be used to involve the Buryat people (and even more broadly the Mongolian-speaking peoples of the foreign East) in the planned world revolution. The article concludes that the Communists have taken a special place in the Buryat ethno-national movement – by participating in the nationalist discourse, they actually sought to subordinate it to the idea of a world socialist revolution. Ключевые слова: буряты, этничность, нациестроительство, национальное движение, бурятские коммунисты, автономия.