Ethnopolitical and ethnosocial processes in the Central Asian Outskirts of Russia during the 1917 revolutions
The article presents the analysis of ethnopolitical and ethnosocial processes in the Steppe region and Turkestan in the period of the revolutions of 1917. The authors emphasize that at the turn of XIX-XX centuries initiated by the Imperial authorities in the region the socio-economic and administrative-political modernization has contributed to the transformation of the traditional system of social relations and intensified the process of ethnic integration of its indigenous peoples. The revolutionary events of February 1917 in Russia were a factor that greatly accelerate these processes in the Central Asian region and determined the politicization of the national movement and the formation of its ideology. Came to power in October 1917, the Bolsheviks undertook a series of measures aimed at involvement of natives elites in the fairway of its national state policies. They used the fact that the growth ethnoconsolidating processes for the creation of the Soviet state on a Federal basis, denying the peoples of the Steppe region and Turkestan the right to self-determination.