IDEOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BIYS — INSTITUTE IN THE PRE-SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHYстатья
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Аннотация:This paper analyzes the efforts of the Russian Empire to establish itself politically and legally on its south-eastern outskirt territories. Special attention is paid to the development of the evolutionary approach on the part of the government when incorporating a common law into a normative and social space of the Empire. The author states that since the legal occupation of Russia on the territory of Kazakh Steppe, the government set about a gradual merging of the adat with the Russian law. A number of reforms were implemented aimed at seizing the local power and to expose the population of the area to the imperial “civilized” law. The author of the paper in detail describes two approaches to reforming the local law culture. While the followers of the painless integration of the common law relied on the practical experience and their awareness that to reform the nomadic society of the Kazakhs, it is necessary to introduce such system of governance which would enable to establish a unified law society; the liberals supported establishment of the united civil society and believed that the main principles of a civilized society was equality of all the citizens before the law without regard to their ethnicity and financial position. espite hot discussions on the problem, the Russian government stuck on the plan – incorporation of a common law into a legal field of the Empire.