Towards Formation Of State Unity Between Russia And Peoples Of North Caucasus
Abstract
The paper states that the key factor contributing to the accession of the peoples of the North Caucasus to Russia was Russian culture. At first, these were cultural contacts between the Cossacks and the North Caucasian highlanders, which led to the creation of a unique Cossack-mountain community. Then, in the first half of the 19th century, Russian writers, poets, Decembrists, Caucasian educators introduced Russia to the Caucasus, and the Caucasus to Russia. It is emphasized that this was the background for a cultural basis, which against all odds united Russia and the Caucasus. Since the 16th century, the lowland regions of Chechnya (Tersko-Sunzhensky interfluve), Dagestan, Kabarda, Karachay, North Ossetia and Cherkessia have been in close contact with the Russian population, Russian culture. At the turn of the 20th–21st centuries many publications appeared in Russia, the authors of which objectively and impartially assessed the Caucasian War, forms and methods of accession of the North Caucasus to Russia, participation of the representatives of advanced Russian intelligentsia in establishing good-neighborly relations and the formation of the state unity of Russia and the peoples of the North Caucasus. The paper provides a rigorous evaluation of published studies and identified archival materials, which objectively and comprehensively analyzed the process of the Russian-North Caucasian socio-political, cultural and military unity, and revealed deep socio-political reasons for strengthening the Russian-North Caucasian unity.
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29 November 2021
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978-1-80296-116-4
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European Publisher
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117
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Cultural development, technological development, socio-political transformations, globalization
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Gapurov, S. A., Bugaev, A. M., & Magamadov, S. S. (2021). Towards Formation Of State Unity Between Russia And Peoples Of North Caucasus. In D. K. Bataev, S. A. Gapurov, A. D. Osmaev, V. K. Akaev, L. M. Idigova, M. R. Ovhadov, A. R. Salgiriev, & M. M. Betilmerzaeva (Eds.), Social and Cultural Transformations in The Context of Modern Globalism, vol 117. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 2276-2282). European Publisher. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.11.301