ザカフカス連邦ヴェセンハは必要か? : 一九二〇年代のソ連における経済機関と民族問題

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The Transcaucasian Federation (1922-1936) was a union republic of the Soviet Union comprising three republics-Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. VSNKh (Vysshii soviet narodnogo khoziaistva, Supreme Soviet of the National Economy), the ministry of industry, had not been established at the federal level, although the Soviet Union, the three republics, and other union republics had their own VSNKh. This paper aims to reveal the local arguments over establishing the Transcaucasian VSNKh and the process of its creation in order to analyze the relations between the economic organizations and the national question in the Transcaucasian Federation. In 1924-1925, the economists emphasized the necessity of the Transcaucasian VSNKh to arrange and plan the economy in the whole Transcaucasia. The opposition resisted its creation to defend the powers of their own national republics. The leaders of the Union and the Federation did not actively support the establishment of a Transcaucasian VSNKh under the New Economic Policy. In May 1928, however, when the central VSNKh and Gosplan were drafting the first fiveyear plan, the Zakkraikom (the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) criticized the opposition for their nationalism and decided to establish the Transcaucasian VSNKh.