“Political Life Unchangeable, Like Nature”: Civilization in Russian Turkestan
The article examines Russian “civilizing mission” concepts in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the lens of four key experts: V. Grigor’ev, N. Petrovsky, V. Nalivkin, and N. Ostroumov. The aim of the study is a comparative analysis of the views of these four imperi...