Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2021. № 1 (37). P. 168—174
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
REVIEW
UDC 94(47)(049.32)
Borshchik Natalia Dmitrievna, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University
ON THE RUSSIAN POLICY OF COLONIALISM: PROBLEMS AND METHODOLOGY OF STUDY. REVIEW OF THE BOOK: IMPERIAL POLICY OF ACCULTURATION AND THE PROBLEM OF COLONIALISM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF NOMADIC AND SEMI-NOMADIC PEOPLES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE) / S. V. Lyubichankovskiy (sci. ed.). Orenburg: OGAU Publishing House, 2019. 480 p.
Abstract
The peer-reviewed monograph is devoted to a number of topical issues, including the seizure and forced development of foreign territories and material resources, the existence of slavery, racial discrimination and even genocide of the local population. These phenomena in one form or another exist in modern reality. The merit of the author's team under the leadership of professor S. V. Lyubichankovskiy lies in the very formulation of a complex and debatable research problem: the relationship between the concepts of “acculturation” and “colonialism”, the existence of a state mechanism for the implementation of colonial policy and its evolution, the study of the phenomenon of the existence of the Russian Empire itself arouse keen interest of specialists in various branches of scientific knowledge. The authors did significant work to define the research terminology, to develop unified approaches and methods for solving tasks, which, in general, determined the quality of scientific work: the book under review can be evaluated as a major achievement of modern Russian historical science.
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Borshchik N. D. On the Russian policy of colonialism: problems and methodology of study. Review of the book: Imperial policy of acculturation and the problem of colonialism (on the example of nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples of the Russian Empire) / S. V. Lyubichankovskiy (sci. ed.). Orenburg: OGAU Publishing House, 2019. 480 p.. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2021, no. 1 (37), pp. 168—174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2021.37.14.