THE STEPPE FRONTIER IN THE CIRCASSIAN HISTORY: TO STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2019-4-49-62
EDN: POELKF
Abstract
Along with the established approach to the study of the North Caucasian frontier as a zone of Russian-North Caucasian interaction, the opportunity to study the Crimean-North Caucasian frontier (both in terms of the opposition Crimean Khanate – the North Caucasus, and in terms of the single frontier zone located between the Russian and Ottoman Empires) seems to be a more productive. Frontier theory alone is not a sufficient tool to explain the genesis of the Circassian ethno-political space (community of principalities). It should be supplemented by other ideas that let us reconstruct the processes of interaction between «highlanders» and nomads. To understand how the Circassian ethnos developed in close proximity to the nomads’ world, the application of the historical law of “challenge and response” (A.J. Toynbee) has a particular importance. The theoretical base of frontier researches fits well with the geopolitical approach, according to which the Russian Empire was formed on the basis of the Eurasian Heartland (H.J. Mackinder) or the core area “median territory” (J.P. LeDonne) and due to the basic geographical, economic and demographic factors, it was supposed to master all the foreign lands.
About the Author
S. Kh. KHOTKO
Adyghe Republican Institute for Humanitarian Studies named after T.M. Kerashev
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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KHOTKO S.Kh. THE STEPPE FRONTIER IN THE CIRCASSIAN HISTORY: TO STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM. E-Journal “Kavkazologiya”. 2019;(4):49-62. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31143/2542-212X-2019-4-49-62. EDN: POELKF
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