Incorporation of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia in Nation-Wide of the Russian Empire

Abstract

The review of the monograph by L. M. Dameshek is submitted. It is noted that the author on the basis of the analysis of the huge massif of various sources investigated key problems: a role and the place of the outskirts of the Russian Empire in domestic policy of the public power, reflection of an image of foreigners in the Siberian press, issues of sociocultural incorporation of the people of Siberia in all-imperial space. The conclusion is drawn that application by the author of a comparting method helped to reveal visually features of an ethnic factor of government policy in relation to the Siberian outskirts, to show lighting it in periodicals of the studied period and to give a complete modern assessment of various forms of entry of indigenous people of Siberia into the system of the state unity of Russia at a boundary of the 19th – 20th centuries.