Abstract
The article is devoted to the problem of constructing a new cultural identity of the highlanders living in the Terek region during the period of 1860-1917. In this article, the authors proceed from the established ideas in the science that the entire evolution of Russian history is filled with the practice of organizing the coexistence of different cultural identities in their constant interrelated development. The specific historical examples show how the inclusion of the Northern Caucasus in the Russian Empire, the modernization processes experienced by Russia itself during this period, the conscious acceptance of the elements of new consciousness, norms and values by the highlanders, has influenced the rationalization of the culture of the Terek region population. Such factors as kunachestvo, borrowings in the material culture, the provision of highlanders with economic and trade opportunities to work peacefully and provide their families with the results of peaceful work, the integration of highlanders into education and enlightenment on a modern basis have become effective means of creating a mechanism of interpenetration of the highlanders’ and Slavic cultures in the region and the formation of a new cultural identity of the North Caucasian highlanders.
Highlights
By the time the Russian Empire entered the period of fundamental changes through the reforms of the 60-70s of the 19th century in the North Caucasus, Russia has already firmly established itself in the military and administrative sense
As historians, by searching for sources confirming the presence of these factors among those that testify to the rationalization of the cultures connected in the region and the construction of new forms of identities in the changing life ties, we found these primarily in the area of the emergence of new norms, symbols and even worldviews
It is evident that the government, religious institutions and emerging communities through education, enlightenment, inclusion and encouraging the highlanders to peaceful work and other means helped them to get acquainted and gradually adopt a number of new cultural norms and patterns of behavior that led to the formation of a habit to understand themselves from the positions of the main cultural characteristics of the Russian socio-cultural environment
Summary
Offering a basis for building more productive relations primarily between the West and the East, E. Said, as it seems to us, invented a universal recipe to find points of possible rapprochement by mitigating the confrontation of the extremes through the attempts to find similarities. It so happened in Russian history that all its evolution is filled with the practice of building the coexistence of different cultural identities both with the expansion of the borders of our country and in connection with its centuries-old status as a multinational state. Factors that have ensured and are ensuring such coexistence are quite multidimensional Their scientific search for the historical past has been demanded by public practice today more than ever before. This, naturally, calls for an urgent need to appeal to other means of ensuring the formation and successful existence of the phenomenon of the allRussian cultural identity, which was less obvious but quite extensive in our history
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