ПРОЦЕССЫ МОДЕРНИЗАЦИИ У КОЧЕВНИКОВ ЮГА РОССИИ В XIX В.: К ПОСТАНОВКЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ

Abstract

At the beginning of the 19th century nomads of the South of Russia found themselves within the Russian Empire, which led to the beginning of processes of modernization in conditions of social, political, economic and cultural transformations. As a result, the traditional nomadic societies of Kalmyks, Nogais and Turkmen, during the 19th century, managed to form new public institutions and structures in the course of complex and contradictory changes. Keywords: nomads of the South of Russia, Kalmyks, Nogais, Turkmens, modernization, traditional society, transformation.