НЕКОТОРЫЕ АСПЕКТЫ НАУЧНОГО ОСМЫСЛЕНИЯ ПЯТИДНЕВНОЙ ВОЙНЫ 2008 Г. (НА ПРИМЕРЕ РОССИЙСКОЙ И ГРУЗИНСКОЙ ИСТОРИОГРАФИИ)

Abstract

The article analyzes the reflection of the 2008 Five Day War in Russian and Georgian historiography. The relevance of studying the event and its scientific comprehension is determined, first of all, by the geopolitical importance of the Caucasus region, which for a long time remains one of the key areas of Russia’s interests. At the same time, many issues of Georgian-Ossetian relations that resulted in the Five Day War and many aspects of the war itself remain open and debatable. The author states that some of them are being actively reconsidered, while others, on the contrary, for various reasons fall out of the researchers’ field of vision. In general, in the author’s opinion, there are no works in the scientific literature that would systematize, summarize and analyze, firstly, the whole layer of issues and contradictions of the Georgian-Ossetian crisis, and secondly – their interpretations existing in modern historiography. In particular, the role played by the Russian Federation as a mediator in the conflicts on the territory of Georgia in general and in particular in the Georgian-Ossetian confrontation remains a controversial issue in the context of the whole complex of unresolved Georgian-Ossetian contradictions. Analysis of the scientific literature on the Five Day War shows that modern historiography of the conflict is characterized by a high polarization of opinions: there are “pro-Georgian” and “pro-Russian” points of view (the South Ossetian historiography is adjacent to the latter in terms of content). The analysis of the main ideas that make up these points of view is the semantic center of this paper.