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The article analyses some aspects of the internal Caucasian policy of the Russian Empire, promoting the integration of the territory and the population of the region into the all-Russian social and political context. The example of the Central Caucasus shows the main directions of this activity, based on the idea of «Russification». The solution of the tasks assigned to a large extent to administrative tasks aimed at the reconstruction of local social structures and standardization of the entire variety of organizational forms of local self-government. The appeal of the Caucasian administration to the patriarchal forms of self-organization ensured the certain consistency of the integration processes, although in general the state intervention in the traditional life of the mountain peoples had a destructive effect on the entire system of established social ties and social roles. The population of the region also had at the same time a positive motivation for Russification, formed in the sphere of education, where the role of the leading integrating factor was assigned to the Russian language. For the local societies both the Russian language and education as a whole became a powerful resource of socialization in the all-imperial space, the development of which to some extent smoothed out the shortcomings of imperial unification, and which became a kind of conflict-free alternative to «administrative Russification». During the developing of the North Caucasus the administrative and legal actions were closely intertwined with measures for the colonization of local territories, the result of which was not only economic development of the region, but also a change in its socio-demographic background. Official measures taken to regulate migration flows were aimed at solving the priority state task facing the government in the region – consolidation of the Russian component in the local population for its convergence with other parts of the empire. The analysis of the issues under consideration leads to the conclusion that there is a sufficient variety of means and methods for implementing the government’s integrative objectives towards the Central Caucasus, which were distinguished by special (imperial) pragmatism, based on the idea of strengthening the foundations of Russian statehood and expanding the all-imperial space.

INTEGRATION PRACTICES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POLICY OF «RUSSIFICATION»