By the beginning of perestroika, the "troika" of Dagestan's highest positions was occupied as follows: an Avar named Mukhu Aliev served as firs secretary of the Communist Party, a Kumyk named Abdurazak Mirzabekov was chairman of the Sovmin, and Magomedali Magomedov, a Dargin, w chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. The unwritten prerequisite triumvirate" shared among representatives of different Dagestani ethnicities helped to preserve Dagestan's political stability through the strains of this period. All of the new political structures and social movements that struggled for power in those days found themselves tightly restricted by ethnic communities in the augmentation of their authority as well as in the proliferation among groups of people Indeed. Dagestan's multiple ethnic mobilization anything that might movements also served to counterbalance have advanced the hegemony of any particular ethnic group. In this way the unrelenting pluralism of Dagestan's ethnic diversity limited extremist developments during these chaotic years