TOPICAL ISSUES OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF ADYGHE INTELLIGENTSIA IN LATE XIXTH - EARLY XXTH CENTURIES UNDER CONDITIONS OF NORTH CAUCASUS INCLUSION IN RUSSIAN EMPIRE

The article gives the content and forms of the public and political activities of the national intelligentsia in the transformation of the public relations of the Adyghe. It is concluded that although the main content of the social activities of the national intelligentsia was the rise of the civil and political status of the Adyghe people within the system of the Russian state, it played a really positive role in the incorporation of the North Caucasus into the Russian social and political space.

Adyghe, national intelligentsia, national self-determination