Khajar VERDIEVA

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Khajar Verdieva, D.Sc. (Hist.), Senior research fellow at the Azerbaijan Studies Scientific Research Center, Baku State University (Baku, Azerbaijan).

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THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE’S MIGRATION POLICY IN THE CAUCASUS

ABSTRACT

After conquering the Caucasus, the Russian Empire carried out a targeted migration policy in order to create an ethnosocial base for establishing its political supremacy. The main thrust of this policy was colonization and the inculcation of Christianity. It led to serious demographic changes in the region: the appearance of new foreign ethnic groups—Germans and Russians and an increase in the number of Christians in the Caucasian population, to name a few. These sociopolitical collisions resulted in the formation of the so-called Caucasian Knot, which is still an integral part of the global geopolitical system.

Introduction

The Caucasus is one of the cradles of the human civilization. The geographical location of this region has long attracted the attention of foreign states wishing to conquer it or expand the sphere of their influence there. The new historical period has created several geopolitical problems for mankind, one of them being the Caucasian Question or Caucasian Knot—a definition used in Russian historiography.

The 18th-19th centuries were turning points in the history of the Caucasus. The many centuries of struggle by the leading world states to………………..

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