In April 1920, a new state, known as the Far Eastern Republic (FER), emerged in the Russian Far East. Formally independent and supposedly embodying the ideas of Siberian regionalism, it was under Bolshevik control. But was the FER merely a conduit for their policies? Ivan Sablin's study covers the history of the Far East from the 1900s to the 1920s and examines the coexistence and competition of different visions for the region's future during this period. Nationalist scenarios linked this future to the interests of one group of the local population: Russians, Buryat-Mongols, Koreans, Ukrainians, and others. Imperialist projects included attempts to integrate the region into the political and economic spheres of influence of Japan and the United States. The Bolsheviks viewed the Far East as a springboard for exporting revolution to Mongolia, Korea, China, and Japan. Proponents of regionalist (oblastnik) ideas aimed for independence or broad regional autonomy for Siberia and the Far East. At the intersection of these scenarios, the Far Eastern Republic emerged, lasting only two years. The author analyzes the multifaceted political activity in the region and explains the reasons for the victory of the Bolshevik version of statist imperial nationalism. Ivan Sablin is the head of a research group at the Department of History at Heidelberg University (Germany).