Historical, Philosophical, Political and Law Sciences, Culturology and Study of Art. Issues of Theory and Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2015. № 6. Part 2. P. 149-151.
THE RUSSIAN ECOLOGICAL WARS: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AS FACTOR OF THE RUSSIAN COLONIZATION IN THE MODERN ANGLO-AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Popov Il'ya Aleksandrovich
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Abstract. The article presents the analysis of using ecological approach in the modern Anglo-American historiography of the Russian colonization. The overview of the basic statements of the Anglo-American authors on the influence of the Russian settlers on the formed ecosystems of the native peoples of Siberia, the Steppe and the Caucasus is provided. The regularities of the formation of these conceptions in the works of foreign historians are revealed.
Key words and phrases: русская колонизация, англо-американская историография, экологический фактор, история Сибири, Кавказ, Степь, the Russian colonization, the Anglo-American historiography, ecological factor, history of Siberia, the Caucasus, the Steppe
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