Current trends of nation-building historiography of 1920-1930's in RSFSR autonomies in the North Caucasus

The article is devoted to the identification of trends in the development of modern foreign and Russian historiography of the nation-building of 1920-1930ies in the North Caucasian autonomies of RSFSR. The object of analysis is the historiography of nation-building in the North Caucasus of 1920-1930ies. The novelty of the study is to conduct a comparative analysis of the works of the Anglo-American, Soviet, and the All-Russian scientific schools in the chronological interval 19902015. The analysis is made on the base of previously unexplored historiographical sources. As a result, article conclusions about the growing influence of constructivism paradigm and the concept of "Affirmative Action Empire", put forward by T. Martin. Installs attention of domestic researchers to previously unexplored aspects of the topic: the formation of the party-state elite autonomous regions of the North Caucasus, the administrative and territorial reform of 1920-1930, the alternatives of becoming Soviet autonomies. Soviet nation-building in the North Caucasus in 1920-30-ies. assessed from the perspective of continuity of legal, economic and socio-cultural integration of complex structural periphery “poliyuridism” and forced use of traditional institutions by the Bolshevik authorities.