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THE RUSSIAN ECOLOGICAL WARS: ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES AS FACTOR OF THE RUSSIAN COLONIZATION IN THE MODERN ANGLO-AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
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Il'ya Aleksandrovich Popov
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
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Submitted:
June 1, 2015
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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.
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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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