The “Local ” Form of the National and Territorial Autonomy and the Possibility of the Application of its Experience

Abstract: The article is dedicated to the territorial organization in the 1920s – early 1930s of the dispersed ethnoses of the North Caucasus. In the period under consideration the Soviet power was forced to exploit the idea of the national and cultural autonomy by combining the latter with the territorial autonomy. In the areas of the compact residence of the national minorities there emerged some “minor forms ” of autonomy – national regions and village soviets. The national village soviet, as a rule, combined several near-by settlements populated by the representatives of the same nationality. The authors of the article are convinced that in modern conditions the experience of the organization and functioning of the national village soviets, the use of the native language in the office work, systems of the interactions between the local authorities and the higher authority is applicable to those regions of the compact residence of the dispersed ethnic groups where the potential of the ex-territorial cultural and national autonomy does not meet the national aspirations. Key words: Granting autonomy Local self-government National village soviets National regions National and cultural autonomy National minorities The North-Caucasus Territory INTRODUCTION Federation”, which evidently implied the consolidation Many socio-economic, socio-political and on the representation. whole national problems faced by the ethnic groups living This “motive ” to a certain extent was traced in th