Revolution of 1917 and problems of ethnopolitical development of the peoples of the Central Asian region of Russia

Abstract

In the Steppe regionand Central Asia, the all-Russian trend of the early 20th century towards nationcenteredness manifested itself quite specifically. The report analyzes the features of manifestation of allRussian trends of revolutionary development in the socio-political and ethno-cultural space of Central Asia.  Autonomism was the highest and most radical point in the evolution of the political priorities of the Central Asian and Kazakh revolution activists. The main attention is paid to the dynamics, nature and forms of ethnopolitical consolidation of the peoples of the region, the role of the national intelligentsia in the events of 1917. The evolution of the political priorities of the national elite, the essence of regional projects of state reorganization and the main characteristics of the organizational models of social modernization that emerged and (or) tested in 1917 are considered.