RSFSR: in the liquidation of the colonial heritage of the peoples of Central Asia

Abstract

Introduction: In the conditions of modern perestroika, modernization of relations in each of the newly formed independent states, a number of unreasonable demands and claims against Russia arise from the republics – the former constituent parts of the USSR. This publication is relevant in this regard. Its content reveals the nature of relations between the republics and the role of the RSFSR in these processes.

The author focuses on the formation and improvement of the economic system and the process of changing relations, primarily the RSFSR with the union republics, showing their direction and content. It is obvious that these relations were purposeful – to raise the role of the economic factor in the development and improvement of the situation in the republics. Often the RSFSR went even to the detriment of its constituent autonomies, territories and national districts, the state of its economy as a whole, in the name of realizing this promising task in the union republics. It is in this direction that the author focuses his attention. At the same time, it proceeds from the irrefutable position that the economy remained the determining factor in the development of the entire multinational power.

Methods. In recent years, the topic under study has not been deeply developed historically. At the same time, it is advisable in the conditions of the emergence of unfounded claims, Russophobia (Ukraine, the Baltic republics, Georgia, etc.) – the former constituent parts of a single union state, attracts attention.

In the course of preparing this article, the author relied primarily on the method of historicism, the information, historical-system method, the method of comparative analysis, etc. The reports of the people's commissariats of the financial and supervising the country's economic systems, as well as the media were used.