On the issue of public administration and urbanization processes in the sociocultural genesis of the North Caucasus: a comparative historical analysis

Abstract

The article presents the results of the processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization and socio-cultural development of the North Caucasus in the second half of the 20th century. Based on the research of historical experience, the analysis of the urbanization processes and the specifics of the economic development of the cities of the Caucasus was carried out. In the present article, the authors attempted to identify the main advantages and disadvantages of urbanization within the framework of the Caucasian city. On the basis of archival materials put into scientific circulation and periodicals of the studied period, the authors study the realization of general trends in the development of the USSR of the 1960s - 1980s using the example of the North Caucasus and reveal the regional, national and local specifics of the North Caucasian history of this period. The authors come to the conclusion that the dynamics of the number and the most important demographic-reproduction characteristics of the peoples of the North Caucasus depend on numerous factors; the modernization processes taking place in this area are investigated. The main stages of the evolution of the settlement system of the North Caucasian peoples within the Russian state are fixed, the main directions of their migration dynamics are presented. The functions of diasporas and their role in the process of integrating the peoples of the North Caucasus into the vital cycles of Russian society are analyzed