Karakorum Government
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Confederated Republic of Altai | |||||||||
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| 1918–1920 | |||||||||
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| Demonym(s) | Altaian | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
• Chairman of the Karakorum-Altay | Grigory Gurkin | ||||||||
• Head of the Constituent Congress of the High Altai | Vasily Anuchin | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 12 March 1918 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | April 1920 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Russia, Altai Republic | ||||||||
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The Karakorum Government or Confederated Republic of Altai was a republic created as an attempt to create a independent Altai. it lasted from 1918 to 1920. when it got annexed by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
History
The second Congress of the high Altai was called in March 1918 and officially created the Confederated Republic of Altai. The pro-Burkhanist government was founded by Altai painter Grigoriy Gurkin and by Russian writer and publicist Vasily Anuchin.[1] The republic was not a fully independent entity but rather an administrative entity with some autonomy, although it was relatively independent in reality due to the chaos of the Russian Civil War. The republic was eventually invaded by white forces in the civil war, only to be invaded by the Soviet 5th army and destroyed in April 1920, although resistance continued well into 1922.[2]
References
- ^ Znamenski, Andrei (2005). "Power of Myth: Popular ethnonationalism and Nationality Building in Mountain Altai, 1904–1922" (PDF). Acta Slavica Iaponica. 22: 44–47. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-02.
- ^ Smele, Jonathan D. (19 November 2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 112-113. ISBN 978-1442252813. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
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