From Conflict to Autonomy: The Making of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region 1918–1922

Arsène Saparov

Europe-Asia Studies, 2010, vol. 62, issue 1, 99-123

Abstract: The article investigates the reasons that led the Bolsheviks to grant autonomous status to South Ossetia in 1922. The conflict between Ossetians and Georgians during the civil war started as a social dispute but rapidly turned into an ethnic confrontation. The Ossetians turned to the Bolsheviks for support, but by 1920 they were defeated and largely expelled from their territory. After the Sovietisation of the region in 1921 the Bolsheviks needed to solve the conflict: the solution adopted was to grant autonomous status. This was not—as is often believed—the result of a divide et impera policy but an attempt at conflict resolution that in the long run satisfied neither side.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09668130903385416

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