Resource Development of the Steppe Region in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Discourse of Imperial Experts
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.019
Abstract
In the article, on the materials of information provided by imperial officials of different ranks, publicists and travelers to the Steppe region, labeled as «imperial experts», the approaches to understanding the resource potential of the region in the system of coordinates of agrarian colonization are revealed. In the course of the research the socio- cultural and ideological context of constructing the discourse of assessing and realizing the resource potential of the steppe periphery of the Russian Empire in the second half of the twentieth — early twentieth centuries was revealed, in which the Orientalist and Eurocentric ideas of the domestic resettlement intelligentsia were cast, and the program directions of resource development of the Steppe region were outlined. It is established that the central subject of the discourse was the theme of economic and cultural competition between nomadic (nomadic) and agricultural modes of production as types of economic and cultural activity, and the projects of resource development of the region and practical activities of the authorities represented the essence of opinions and points of view of imperial experts.
About the Author
M. K. Churkin
Omsk State Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Churkin Mikhail Konstantinovich — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Russian History
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Churkin M.K. Resource Development of the Steppe Region in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Discourse of Imperial Experts. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(3(96)):185-193. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.3.96.019
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