title: Frontier research in present-day Russia: Shaky boundaries of the academic dialogue
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metadata.value: Sen’, Dmitriy V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T12:43:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T12:43:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Sen’ D. V. Frontier research in present-day Russia: Shaky boundaries of the academic dialogue. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2020, vol. 1 (27), pp. 66–80.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2020.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19438
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyses contemporary Russian scholars’ usage of the frontier concept in studies
  devoted to borders, borderlands, contact zones, and the history of Russian development of new lands.
  The author highlights controversial areas in such studies, including the features of frontier territories,
  the typology of Russian frontiers, and the search for counterparts to the term “frontier” in the Russian
  language and among Russian historical and geographical names. Cases discussed include Russian
  scholars deny the heuristic potential of the frontier concept for Russian history. Both the rhetoric of such authors and their sometimes far-from-scholarly system of arguments are analyzed. The author considers problems and perspectives of frontier theory in comparison with a similar situation in Ukrainian
  and American historiography. The modern efforts of scholars from different countries to study lexical
  analogues of the concept of “frontiers” in order to explain the historical and cultural local specifics of
  various territories were analyzed. At the same time, some explorers are offering to refuse of this concept in research practices. Attention is drawn to reasons why this theory is especially actively used by
  representatives of various regional academic centers in Russia. The common and distinctive features of
  studies in the history of various Russian frontiers are characterized. The most prominent among those
  frontiers are the Siberian and the southern (North Caucasian) frontiers. The article points out the connection between some development trends of frontier investigations in Russia and the interest growth to
  regional history, the history of the Russian state expansion and the borders formation of foreign policy.
  The author draws attention to a new generation of studies which has developed under the influence of
  the frontier theory. They have significantly transformed the state of academic humanitarian community
  of the South of Russia, a community that is quiet conservative in relation to modern scientific concepts.
  Finally, perspective topics were proposed for further use of the frontier concept in research on the history of Russia.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was created with the support of the program for the development of scientific journals under
  state contract No. 14.597.11.0035 concluded between the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian
  Federation and NEICON.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 1 (27)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discussion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: classification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: comparative studies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contact zones
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: borders
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frontier
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: frontier theory
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Frontier research in present-day Russia: Shaky boundaries of the academic dialogue
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metadata.value: Article
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