Annotation
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From the perspective of teaching elective courses on the formation of a historical and cultural partnership of the peoples of the Kuban in institutions of higher education, it is important to point out that in the process of historical and cultural interaction in the North-West Caucasus Region, especially in such a part of it as the territory of Kuban, a certain role was played by representatives of the Polish people.
The well-known North Caucasian historians Yu.Yu. Klychnikov and S.S. Lazaryan addressed an assessment of the significance of Polish emigration in historical, cultural and other processes in Kuban. Their research is of high relevance. All subsequent history of the XX and the beginning of the XXI century show that external forces have sought and are striving to tear the Caucasus, especially its northern part, from Greater Russia. The geopolitical role of this region as the solar plexus of Eurasia (A.A. Zhdanov) today is greater than ever. The authors were able to skillfully demonstrate the role of Polish emigration in the aggravation of the situation in the North Caucasus which played a provocative role in the western part of the Region, Circassia that tried to consolidate local political forces to organize resistance to the Russian Empire. The authors showed the far-reaching plans of the Polish insurgents who not only sought to achieve the restoration of Polish independence (which in itself was an important historical task for the Polish people) but to carry out this task through the collapse of the Russian state, which would have brought innumerable misfortunes to the peoples of our country. At the same time, the authors very accurately pointed out that the plans of Polish emigration were basically utopian since, with rare exceptions, the Poles were poorly acquainted with the specifics of the Caucasus, its socio-cultural and political structure, the mentality of its peoples and ethnic groups; they were not aware that the centrifugal forces, on which they tried to rely, were generally much weaker than the centripetal ones which was especially clearly revealed in the events of the 20th century.
Paradoxical as it may seem, but the descendants of the Polish emigrants of the 19th century who occupied unequal positions in relation to the Russian authorities, now living in Kuban, formed the basis of the modern Polish community of the region. History has put everything in its place. Those whose ancestors were not only loyal to the Russian state but also fought against it today are making their contribution to the building of a new Russia.
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Keywords
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gortsy, captured Poles, Polish emigration, insurgents, legionnaires, British "sponsors", "Lambert" hotel, Shamil's imamate.
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