Юг России в проектах имперской интеграции: военно-народное управление на Кавказе (1860–1917)

С. 114–139.

Bobrovnikov V.

Russia's European South as a macroregion formed in the late imperial and Soviet periods. It that time Russia's Caucasus was shaped as its integral part. The whole region is often regarded a backward and closed borderland that opposed to all modernization processes reaching it late. In this article the author argues that this stereotypic narrative was uncritically borrowed by some politicians and scholars from the Russian colonial literature of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It should be rethought basing on first-hand sources from region. In reality, Russia's Caucasus quickly answered to all challenges that reached it from the imperial core. After the end of the Caucasus war a long series of reforms started in the region. They ended already under the Soviet rule and resulted in making Caucasus as integral part of the Russian polity for more than half a century.

Keywords: государственные реформы, modernization of regions, микроисторический анализ, колониальная модернизация, postcolonialism, historical narrative, исторический нарратив, microhistory, social reforms in Russia

In book

Историко-культурное наследие юга России. Научно-практическая конференция. Г. Ставрополь, 9 февраля 2015 г.

М.: Книжный мир, 2015.