Eleventh Global Studies Conference

Abstract

At the center of the paper, there is a problem of definition of characteristic features of formation and realization of the policy of the Russian Empire on a development of the Central Asian and Ural-Volga region territories. We are researching a realization of state policy of acculturation (conscious policy of influence of representatives of one cultural community on other took place in the Russian Empire), and we answer a question whether imperial policy of acculturation keeps within the methodological the scheme of “colonialism” (on the Russian pre-revolutionary material of the respective regions, with the main emphasis on the situation developing on the Lower and Middle Volga, in South Ural, and in the Kazakh steppe as these territories have been inhabited by the nomadic and semi-nomadic people typologically close to each other). Scientific novelty of the research is the first research which is in a complex studying imperial policy of the Russian Empire concerning “development” of the specific macroregion – the territories of the nomadic and semi-nomadic people of the Central Asia and the Ural-Volga region in eighteenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The research is executed at the expense of a grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 17-18-01008).