GOVERNING AUTHORITY IN SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA: THE LEGAL STATUS AND INSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF THE TURKESTAN ASSR CONGRESSES OF SOVIETS
Keywords:
revolutionary upheavals, February Revolution, Turkestan, Soviet, Congress, Shorai Islamiya, Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, Constituent Assembly, representative, NKVD, TSK, Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic (TSSR), sectionAbstract
This study employs a multifaceted methodological approach to
analyze the structural impact of the Russian Empire’s 1917 political crisis and
subsequent revolutionary transformations on the legal, political, and social systems
of the Turkestan region. The research provides a sequential and comparative
examination of the genesis of national identity and independent statehood in the
region, their manifestation within political discourse, and the institutional
establishment of Soviet power.
The central focus of this research is the functional role, legal-normative
status, and institutional architecture of the Congresses of Soviets within
Turkestan’s regional administration. These elements are investigated through
historical-legal, historical-comparative, and institutional analysis, drawing
extensively on primary sources and archival materials.
The findings offer a scientific framework for a systematic understanding of
the legal nature of the Soviet state mechanism formed in the Turkestan
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (TASSR) between 1917 and 1924.
Furthermore, this study contributes to a reassessment of the legislative and
institutional foundations of the Congresses of Soviets, their jurisdictional scope,
and their administrative functions from the perspective of modern state-law theory.
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