ТЕОРЕТИКО-МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ДЕЛОПРОИЗВОДСТВЕННЫХ МАТЕРИАЛОВ ПО ПРОБЛЕМАМ КАВКАЗОВЕДЕНИЯ

Abstract

The article examines the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of office evi-dence through the analysis of sources on the history of the North Caucasus. The author defined the concept, types and methods of studying office documentation, carried out a historiographical re-view of the main studies devoted to the development of a theoretical basis for the study of this type of sources. She paid special attention to the study of the experience accumulated in Cauca-sian studies in the study of office materials of Russian administration in the North Caucasus at the end of the 18th – 19th centuries. In particular, the author analyzed the works of A.Kh. Abazov, E.G. Muratova, T.A. Kolosovskaya, Z.Zh. Glasheva, D.M. Alkhasova and others, in which they, thanks to the use of methods of classification, generalization, functional and interdisciplinary analysis, etc. carried out external and internal criticism of office documentation. The author con-cluded that a comprehensive source analysis of office materials using special historical and inter-disciplinary methods and approaches is required.