Open AccessBackground of the Establishment and Loss of Independence of the Far Eastern Republic
Author(s) -
Andrei Ivanovich Baksheev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
federalizm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2073-1051
DOI - 10.21686/2073-1051-2020-3-207-218
Subject(s) - independence (probability theory) , independent state , the republic , politics , political science , state (computer science) , historicism , spanish civil war , economic history , aggression , ancient history , history , political economy , geography , law , sociology , philosophy , psychology , statistics , mathematics , theology , algorithm , psychiatry , computer science
This year marks exactly 100 years since the creation of a kind of state formation on part of the territory of our country – the FER. The article analyzes one of the little-studied pages of the history of the Russian Far East – the prerequisites for the creation, the struggle for independence and the loss of independence of the Far Eastern republic that existed in the period 1920-1922. The article uses the methods of the principle of objective historicism; synchronous method, the method of historical modeling, the features of the Civil War in the Far East, the foreign policy grounds for the creation of the FER, the reasons for the creation of the FER, the struggle of the armed forces of the FER with the White Guards and interventionists, the relationship between Soviet Russia and the FER, the reasons for the loss of independence of the FER are analyzed. In conclusion, the author comes to the conclusion that the Far Eastern republic was a buffer, which, having protected Soviet Russia from Japanese aggression, was doomed to disappear from the political map of the world.