The Soviet Far East as a strategic outpost and the regional authorities' nationality policy: the Korean question, 1920-1929

Autor: Marina Fuchs
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Sibirica. 4
ISSN: 1476-6787
1361-7362
DOI: 10.1080/13617360500150228
Popis: This article analyses the centre-periphery divergence over the Korean question in the Russian Far East, taking into account material from both Russian central and regional archives. The relative permeability of the frontiers in the Far East practically up to the 1950s and the heavy dependence of the Russian/Soviet Far East's economy on Manchurian commodity streams at least until the beginning of the 1930s gave this region a ‘double periphery’ character. After the act of judicial ‘Sovietization’ of the Russian Far East, the Bolsheviks initially tested a model wherein the ‘political substance’ of Bolshevism was developed on the old market economic framework, which had been adapted to the needs of the new regime mainly through reform measures and not with revolutionary sweep. However, the export-import orientation of the Dal'krai regional economy, which resulted from the region's economic separation from European Russia and its dependence on Manchurian and Pacific commodity markets, was not initially underst...
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