EURASIAN APPROACHES TO DOMESTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY XIX–XX CENTURIES (IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERPRETATION AND TEACHING THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA)

Abstract

The renewal and revival of Russia on the basis of federalist principles, the search for a modern consolidating idea of Russian society are objectively associated with the tasks of overcoming the rudiments of imperial, western-oriented Russian historiography, as well as the corresponding traditions of teaching Russian history. The theoretical legacy of the «Eurasian historical school» can play an important role in solving these pressing problems. The purpose of this article was an attempt to identify and characterize a complex of Eurasian approaches in interpreting the main plots of Russian history. Based on the historiographic analysis of Eurasian scientific literature (the works of N.S. Trubetskoy, G.V. Vernadsky, P.N. Savitsky, L.N. Gumilyov et al., as well as their predecessors), the authors came to the conclusion that the theoretical The preconditions of Eurasianism, which took Russian historiography beyond the framework of the established Westernist tradition, developed in the second half of the 19th century on the basis of the continuity of development of Russian historical thought. The Eurasian school, considering Russia as a separate civilization, tried to present new, more adequate, organic foundations of the consolidation of multinational Russian society. The main provisions of the Eurasian doctrine, demanded in the course of a deeper and more diverse understanding of the historical past of Russia, educational and educational activities, can become an important factor in the formation of ideas about modern Russian identity.