NFLUENCE OF FEBRUARY 1917 ON THE VISION OF LOCAL IMMUNITIES OF CAUCASIAN PEOPLES AS REGARDS NATIONHOOD

Abstract

The article studies the process of shaping the vision of Caucasian communities in 1917 as regards their place as a part of Russia. With the reference to memoirs of participants and contemporaries of the events, one can see that the overthrow of the Russian monarchy was an incentive for local institutional activity. Political and intellectual elite has sought to prepare the Caucaus for the entry into the Russian federal state as an autonomy. On the other hand, the weakening of the Interim Government resulted in the growth of centrifugal trends. Employing historical sources the author demonstrates the unity of Transcaucasia and the North Caucasus in their socio-political development from February to October 1917.

Keywords

• the big caucasus
• the 1917 revolution
• interim government
• special transcaucasian committee
• highland peoples union