THE ETHNOGENESIS IN THE ETHNOLOGY – FORMATION AS THE SCIENCE ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF NATIONS

Abstract

In the 1920s, the Bolsheviks took measures to re-establish the internal administrative-territorial structure of the Soviet state on the basis of national characteristics. Eventually, each of the newly formed republics and provinces was given a specific “nation title,” and accordingly individual regions and all the places within them were associated with the name of a particular nation. Thus, there was a need to create a thesis on autochthony and natural rights to a particular area.