title: At the origins of the idea of the Caucasian Muslim confederation: on the union of Azerbaijan, Dagestan, and the Mountainous Republic in 1917–1918
abstract: On the basis of a significant amount of documentary and archival material, the article examines the background and development of the idea of creating a political and state association of the territories inhabited by the Muslim peoples of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia. It is shown how the idea of cultural and national autonomy of the national outskirts arose in the course of the democratic movement in Russia in 1917, and how after the Bolshevik Coup in Russia, that idea was transformed in
journal: Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history(rus )