Dagestan is madness indeed, and that's one reason I hesitate splitting the region in ASSRs, as soon as one of the ethnic groups seem favored, the others will get mad. Essentially the North Caucasian SSR could work as a Mega Dagestan.
What are we exactly talking about? Daguestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya? Northern Ossetia too?
What Dr. Hoodbhoy said exscept Circassia, since Circassia wasn't a part of the independent Mountainous Republic. And yes, it included Dagestan.
Dagestan wasn't in the Soviet autonomous republic though. They might include Circassia to balance the locals with Slavs.
Perhaps, but would they really betray all the Russians of Circassia? (They would of course have no problems betraying the Cossacks, since they all had supported the White movement.)
Was just thinking; let's say the North Caucasian SSR survived to the 90s, when USSR collapsed and the Soviet Republics became independent.
Well, historically all SSRs declared independendence.
Depends on the situation of the Ossetians in both Georgia and Whateveryoucallit. If there's no disagreement on that issue then the only other sources of conflict are ultranationalist ambitions for a Greater Georgia (which would lead to a rather unimportant territorial dispute) and radical Islam gaining a foothold in Whateveryoucallit.Relations with Russia would be quite rocky I guess, what about relations with Georgia?
They could have gone in any direction by this point.More important, what about relations between the many ethnic groups inside the new republic?