Contemporary English- and German-language historiography of Siberia's sociocultural development in the "imperial period"
The article analyzes works by the contemporary English- and German-language researchers (St. Stuch, E.- M. Stolberg, A. Znamenski, E. Friesen, M. Bassin, F.-B. Schenk, C. Weiss, et al.) focusing on the history of Siberia's sociocultural development during the "imperial period" (18th - early 20th centuries). The author identifies key theoretical and methodological approaches applied by foreign scholars: "frontier", "colonization", "modernization", "imperial", as well as approaches of the "new social and cultural history". It is established that under the influence of the "cultural turn" the emphasis of Siberian studies in Western historiography gradually shifted from the phenomena of "objective reality", from the analysis of mass and typical structures and processes (often using the statistical and mathematical methods) to the study of "subjective reality": "mental worlds", structures of human consciousness, systems of ideas, concepts and symbols; practices and values; mental sets and human behavior patterns. "Cultural and spatial turn" among other things led to mainstreaming of the issues of "imagined geography", "mental maps" and "spatial thinking". English- and German-language researchers also deal with a wide range of issues related to the formation of "regional consciousness", "Siberian and ethnical identities" of the newcomers and indigenous population. They also define the role of various instruments of sociocultural and "mental" integration of Siberia in the imperial space (Orthodox missions, academic expeditions, transport communications). The topic of "mental integration" of Siberia is studied among others by M. Bassin and C. Weiss, who consider "geographical space" of Siberia as an emotionally loaded mental construct and "geo-ideological" concept reflecting the self-perception of the Russian society. It is noted that studies in Siberian history over the last decades have been interdisciplinary in nature as exemplified among others by the works of F.-B. Schenk, S. Frank, and others. Contemporary Western historians using methods and concepts of "historical imagology" pay significant attention to the "images" and "representations" of the Siberian macroregion, to the analysis of relevant myths. It is concluded that, according to the Western historians, the most important factors influencing the features of Siberia's sociocultural development included geographical features of the region, the role of local intellectual elite along with the changes in the government policy. The author declares no conflicts of interests.
Keywords
history of Siberia,
sociocultural processes,
Western historiography,
"cultural turn"Authors
| Anan'ev Denis A. | Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | denis.ananyev@gmail.com |
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