Open AccessCauses and Results of Subjection of Central Asian Khanates to the Russian Empire (1860—1890s)
Author(s) -
Ilya I. Aminov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aktualʹnye problemy rossijskogo prava
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-1862
pISSN - 1994-1471
DOI - 10.17803/1994-1471.2020.110.1.024-035
Subject(s) - empire , central asia , accession , independence (probability theory) , state (computer science) , politics , political science , intervention (counseling) , territorial integrity , interpretation (philosophy) , foreign policy , ancient history , economic history , history , law , sovereignty , european union , international trade , business , psychology , statistics , mathematics , algorithm , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
The Russian Federation being currently a regional leader in strengthening Eurasian integration, it is necessary to remove contradictions concerning the interpretation of the history of Central Asia’s accedence 1 to the Russian Empire. Thus, it is indisputable that it was the Russian Empire that played a key role in the transition of the peoples of the Central Asian region, on the territory of which there were three major states — Bukhara Emirate, Kokand and Khiva Khanates, to a new level of civilizational, state and legal development. The paper not only touches upon the reasons, nature of the accession of the Central Asian states to the Russian Empire, but it also carries out a comprehensive analysis of the internal- and foreign-policy situation during the historical period under consideration. The totality of the circumstances makes it possible to answer the following questions: whether the Russian Empire under those conditions had an alternative to armed intervention; whether that intervention was carried out in accordance with the national interests of the peoples of Russia and Central Asia; what changes in the form of governance took place in Central Asian States after they lost political independence.