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The article evaluates a new monographic study of a famous Russian historian, doctor of historical sciences, professor V.A. Matveev. It is devoted to the aspects of the expansion of the Caucasus by Russians, where various peoples of Russia got settled; among them the system-forming role was played by representatives of the Russian ethnic group. The author traces the features of the Caucasus settling by Russians and by East Slavic immigrants, their composition and status specifics, the problems of its definitions, the issues of demography, the role of the state in organizing Russian expansion of the Caucasus with the help of the Eastern Slavs, the dialectic of its relationship with the Russian and gortsy ethnic elements.
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Keywords
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de-Russification, demodernization, deindustrialization, East Slavic ethnosphere, old-timers, autochthons, natives, co-citizenship, Terek-Grebensky Cossacks, religious dissidents, Old Believers, Molokans, Dukhobors, colonization, frontierism.
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