Actual issues in the history of the Russian Far East during the period of radical liberal reforms.

Abstract

Introduction. The article is an analytical review of the publications of the staff of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2010–2020. The historiographical analysis of the works of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography has its own scientific value. This is the way to determine the place and role of the scientific team in the formation of a new direction in Russian historiography - post-Soviet regional history. Of all the variety of problems, the authors focused their attention on an analytical review of two thematic complexes of modern regional history. The first is devoted to a review of works united by the idea of​​“driving social forces of Far Eastern politics” or touching on the topic of its “common good”. The authors identify the second problem through studies that reveal the concept of a "transformational crisis" in the Far East region. Methodology. The article is based on a synthesis of two approaches: historiographical approach and elements of the methodology of intellectual history. In particular, the authors relied on the principle of intellectual history, taking into account the interaction between the movement of ideas and their historical environment. The historiographical review is carried out in comparison with the works of scientists from other scientific institutions and centers over the past 10 years. The initial postulate of analysis is taken into account: the grouping of literature can have different configurations, taking into account the relevance of the stated problem and the historical distance separating the authors from the object and subject of research. Research results. In recent years, a new scientific direction has been formed at the IHAE FEB RAS – the Far East in the era of radical reforms. The specificity of the publications is the analysis of changes in the Far Eastern policy based on the criterion of social results within the framework of the concept of “common good”, which allowed scientists to show the problems of Russia's turn to the East. The analysis of research has shown the heuristic possibilities of the concept of a transformational crisis. The solidarity opinion of the scientific community was established: the creation of new institutions for the development of the Far Eastern territory brought the bureaucracy to the fore. The reformers' stake on the rapid formation of entrepreneurship in the region and its participation in the development of the Far East in the 1990s did not materialize, since rentier campaigns prevailed here.