Buryat ethnicity in the political projects of the XX century: empire of the empire?

One of the most significant events of political development in the XX century was the actualization of ethno-national viewpoint. In the period under review Buryat elites conceptualized four models of socio-cultural and political development of the Buryat ethnos, in the context of which differently carried out self-presentation is drilled in the socio-political space empire. Actualization of a model determines, to some extent, cultural and political preferences of designers and, to a greater extent, the general social context and political situation. The content of ethno-political design throughout the twentieth century determined discursive practices of nationalists and/or Communists, and in this sense, ethnicity is understood as the result of social and political interaction. It can be argued that the representatives of the nationalist-minded intellectuals were classical representatives of ethnic nationalism and objectively Communists began to act as representatives of civic nationalism, which is the most important task was the creation of a new “multicultural” nation -the Soviet people.