The national policy of the Russian Empire in the assessments of the Siberian periodicals of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries: the regionalism vector

the purpose of the study is a hermeneutic analysis of the narratives of the content of the national policy of the Russian Empire in the materials of the Siberian periodical press using the example of the newspaper "Eastern Review" and the magazine "Siberian Notes" of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries. The approach of publicists representing the movement of Siberian oblasts is emphasized. It is shown that one of the basic paradigms of this ideology was the idea of cultural polyphony in understanding and interpreting the indigenous population as an Asian alien world. They correlated it with the Eastern cultural landscape and believed that with an active policy of resettlement, a mixed type of eastern and Western cultures would be formed – the Russian-Siberian nationality. It is established that the materials of the Siberian periodical press, in particular the newspaper "Eastern Review" and the magazine "Siberian Notes" contain a certain array of value judgments about the state national policy of the Russian Empire. In the course of the hermeneutic analysis, we have identified narratives peculiar to the political ideology of the Siberian oblasts. The discourses turned towards a flexible strategy of the process of incorporation of the indigenous Siberian nationalities into a single Russian state. As well as the role of the indigenous population of the Asian part of Russia in ethno-cultural interaction.

Eastern Outlook, Siberian notes, political journalism, national politics, Siberian regionalism, history of Russian political thought