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Russian-Norwegian Borderland in Russian Historiography of the 19th – Early 21st Centuries. P. 27–39

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Section: History

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Authors

Konstantin S. Zaykov
Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov;
nab. Severnoy Dviny 17, Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russian Federation;
e-mail: k.zaikov@narfu.ru

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of Russian studies of the 19th – early 21st centuries on the history of Russian-Norwegian borderland in the 18th – early 20th centuries. The author found that the prevalence of empirical positivism in describing the history of march demarcation produced rather firm and one-sided interpretations of the process of delimitation in the works written in the first half of the 20th century. Viewing the state as an a priori objective phenomenon, historians and legal scholars regard the border as a static instrument of political power, thus ignoring the multidimensional nature of this phenomenon and the variability of its subjects. Russian historiography is dominated by the belief in Norway’s pursuing a longterm historical strategy of eastward expansion in the direction of Russia. Keeping the current situation in mind, Russian historians excessively politicize their appraisals of the 1826 border convention, thus following in the footsteps of their early 20th-century predecessors. The history of demarcation in their research appears detached from the general course of the history of Russia–Norway relations in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the history of the region under study. With the exception of a small number of scholars, the overwhelming majority of historians chronologically narrow down the problem of march demarcation to the period of 1822–1826, which, in this context, lies outside the general spatiotemporal eventfulness of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The historians fill this gap with a somewhat synthetic continuity of the events of the 14th – 17th and early 19th centuries. Thus, the author comes to the conclusion that in terms of methodology this topic remains underdeveloped in Russian historiography and requires closer attention in order to reconstruct the history of the evolution of the Russian-Norwegian borderland from a frontier-like territory in the 13th – early 19th centuries to an area with clear political boundaries in the 20th century.

Keywords

Russian historiography, Russia–Norway relations, Russian-Norwegian borderland
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