Political processes and changes in Dagestan in 1980-s

Abstract

The development of the modern Russian state along the path of building a democratic legal society necessitates the analysis and use of the positive experience of previous decades. Considering this and relying on factual material, a significant part of which is being introduced for the first time into scientific circulation and studies affecting this scientific research problem, we have attempted for the first time ever in the Russian historiography to analyze political processes and changes in Dagestan in 1980-s in dynamics and in comparison with similar processes in the whole country. At the same time, the article pays special attention to showing the regional characteristics of political development, primarily its religious and national component on the basis of the principles of science, historicism, consistency and objectivity. The author characterized these processes and concluded that stagnation was clearly manifested in the multinational republic in the first half of the 1980-s, as well as in the country as a whole. In the second half of the decade regional authorities made significant efforts to move from administrative-command methods to democratic methods of managing sectors of the national economy and strengthen democratic trends in political development.

Keywords

• республика
• коммунистическая партия
• советы народных депутатов
• избирательная система
• политические процессы
• многопартийная система
• национальные движения
• republic
• communist party
• council of people's deputies
• electoral system
• political processes
• multi-party system
• national movements