The celebration of the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution in the Far Eastern Republic: Soviet practices of party leadership in a buffer state

Abstract

The article deals with how the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution was celebrated in the Far Eastern Republic. The author states that the celebration of this event was carried out according to the Soviet canons and instructions of the bodies of the Communist party, although nominally the republic was an independent state. The celebrations were aimed at increasing the degree of confidence of the Far Eastern population in the Bolsheviks and at discrediting the external and internal enemies of the Far Eastern Republic and Soviet Russia. The fifth anniversary of the revolution was a good occasion for a campaign (initiated from above, but presented as an initiative from below) for the absorption of the Far Eastern Republic by Soviet Russia.