Democratic Doctrinaires and the Idea of the Far-Eastern "Buffer" State in the Late 1919 - Early 1920: a Chance for Political Survival?

Abstract

The article brings forward the analysis of the ideological directives of the two
basic social parties of Russia - Socialist-Revolutionaries and Socialist - Democrats
(Mensheviks) at the end of the Russian Civil war. During the period in a separate
region of the country - in the Far East - in connection with the idea to build an
externally independent from red Moscow buffer state the median grouping
seemed to have acquired a perspective to fulfil their political programs. However,
the doctrinaire character of the logical and externally inviting intelligent-like
projects, the isolation of democratic ideologies from the militant political realia
of the country and the mentality of its population, the helplessness of the Socialist-
Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in the political and organization spheres once
again brought the idea of democracy in Russia to the naturally determined regrettable
results. There wasnt a real alternative to the dictatorship in Russia.