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He article considers the problem of representing the history of the peoples of the North Caucasus in the democratic press of Russia in the 19th century. Managers and employees of the central pre-revolutionary periodical "Sovremennik" - V. G. Belinsky, N. A. Nekrasov, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, N. A. Dobrolyubov, N. G. Chernyshevsky sought to form a democratic consciousness among wide sections of the Russian public. According to the author, the strength and historical value of the democratic press is determined by their constant attention to the history of the mountain peoples of the Caucasus, support for the national liberation struggle of the mountain society. In the democratic press, the history of the peoples of the North Caucasus was covered not multilinearly, but multifacetedly. The efforts to collect and publish topical information for the capital and provincial readers on the military, economic, political, sci-entiic, literary development of the Caucasus allowed the journal to take a leading place on a national scale. The journalistic activities of the «Sovremennik» editorial board contributed not only to the collection, analysis and broadcast of relevant information about the daily life of the highlanders of the Caucasus, their traditions and customs, mental characteristics, government policies in the region, the forms and methods of integrating the Caucasus into Russia, but also helped preserve historical sources. The author poses a conceptual question about the species afiliation of periodicals. On the basis of publications about the Caucasus in "Sovremennik", the author substantiates the theory of the study of periodicals as a historiographic source. Firstly, the materials of the periodical press on the history of the peoples of the North Caucasus make it possible to see the historiographic process in full. Secondly, the periodical press brings to the attention of the researcher earlier than other sources the existing concepts, views, opinions, achievements of historical science and indicates gaps in its development. It is for the historiographer an indicator of the state of historical knowledge. The author emphasizes that journal articles should be more actively included in the research practices of historiographers of the North Caucasus. |
