Финансово-хозяйственная основа местного самоуправления кочевых магометан степного Предкавказья в XIX — начале XX в.

Abstract

The article deals with the social capital of the nomadic Mohammedans of the steppe Ciscaucasia in the 19th — early 20th centuries as a financial instrument, legally established by the state and organized by the societies themselves. The legislator, having secured the social capital of nomadic Mohammedans in normative acts, did not prescribe a detailed mechanism for its functioning. Meanwhile, the absence of a legal norm did not prevent the establishment of public capital as financial instruments that allow independently, within the framework of the existing order, to resolve issues of local importance. The analysis of office documentation made it possible to classify the social capital of the nomads of the steppe Ciscaucasia, depending on the level of their functioning, into provincial, bailiff and aul. The study revealed a pattern that the lower the level of social capital, the closer its costs to the problems of the population.