COLONIZATION OF THE RUSSIA AND USA IN THE WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-AMERICAN HISTORIANS: A COMPARATIVE ASPECT

Abstract

The article analyzes the works of Anglo-American researchers on the history of Russian colonization, in which the territorial expansion of Russia and the United States is considered in a comparative manner. G.V. Ibneeva and I.A. Popov shows that modern Anglo-American works are characterized by a tendency to establish direct analogies between the colonization of Russia and the USA: between Cossacks and cowboys, Ukraine and Louisiana, etc. At the same time, analyzing the research literature on the studied problem, the authors of the article come to the conclusion that modern AngloAmerican historians tend to see more differences in the colonization processes in Russia and the USA than similarities. Development methods of new lands are often evaluated by Anglo-American researchers in favor of Russia; the means by which colonization was carried out is seen as a more “positive” example of territorial expansion. This conclusion is not typical for the history of Russia in foreign historiography. The research results show a variety of interpretations of the history of Russian colonization in this historiography.