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This paper offers a broad historical and comparative analysis of territorial organisation and autonomy in Russia from the early modern age to the present. To what degree, when, and why did the Russian and Soviet authorities accommodate and even promote regional and national autonomies on their expanding territory? The paper reviews efforts at decentralisation (and in some cases fede ralisation) as a set of imagined, proposed, and (partially) implemented measures. In so doing, it identifies historical 'moments' at which autonomous solutions became particularly important. It also highlights commonalities and differences, continuities and ruptures in longterm perspective while tracing the specificities of the Russian case. While different forms of territorial autonomy co-existed throughout Russian history, most were shortlived or heavily constrained.

Our modern legal system is based on the principle of
equality. But is equality perhaps not also a concept that
inadequately describes the complexity of normative orders?
Highly differentiated societies with a multitude of collective
identities and functional rationalities are in a permanent
state of tension with this legal postulate. The contributions
to this volume examine how this tension has developed in
Europe and Latin America over the last 200 years