PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SIBERIA (XVII – EARLY XX CENTURY) IN THE ENGLISHAND GERMAN-LANGUAGE HISTORIOGRAPHY
D.A. Ananyev
Keywords: Western historiography, Siberia, social and economic development, «frontier», «colonization», «modernization»
Abstract
The paper reviews major works on history of social and economic development of Siberia in the XVII – early XX centuries published by the British, American, Canadian and German scholars . The author comes to conclusion that Western researchers focused on history of fur trade, agrarian colonization, development of transport communications . Although Western researchers used a rather limited range of available historical sources they offered original approaches to studying Siberia’s social and economic development based on the concepts of «frontier», «colonization» and «modernization» .
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