Final emblem of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic which lasted from 1922 until 1936. The TSFSR played a central administrative role in early border delimitation in the Soviet South Caucasus.
On today’s episode we discuss internal border delimitation in the early Soviet Union. Our discussion covers a wide geography - from Central Asia to the South Caucasus to the Ukrainian-Russia borderlands. How did internal borders get delimited after the establishment of Soviet power in the 1920s and 30s? What role did borders play in nation building? And how do economic factors shape the border delimitation process?
Our guest today is Stephan Rindilisbacher author of the book Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780585/borders-in-red/
Stephan Rindlisbacher is a postdoctoral researcher at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
