Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1982. 311 p. The migration of Russian peasants to the outskirts of the former Russian Empire during the capitalist era was only studied specifically and systematically in the post-war years. Currently, there are studies and publications of documents on the history of the resettlement of peasants to Siberia, the Far East, Central Asia and Kazakhstan. As for migration to the Caucasus, historians have so far focused only on the steppe Ciscaucasia and the North Caucasus, or have focused on some part of Transcaucasia or a limited aspect of the problem The monograph by D. I. Ismail-zade, a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, is the first study covering the history of Russian immigrants in Transcaucasia from the 1930s to the beginning of the 20th century, i.e. from the beginning of the migration to Great October. The author comprehensively examines the life of the Russian peasantry, its creative and economic activities in Transcaucasia. In theoretical terms, the mass migration movement is connected both with the problem of the emergence of capitalist relations in Transcaucasia and with the spread of capitalism in breadth. The political relevance of the topic is also obvious. Modern bourgeois literature. Maksei, N. Ryazanovsky, L. Snyder, B. Dzhe-lavich, D. Irving, D. Fieldhouse, etc.) seeks to distort the history of the peoples of our country, falsifies their relations, the role of the Russian people in their economic, cultural and political development. 2 The monograph contains material that provides a basis for reasoned conclusions and assessments that are opposed to the constructions of modern bourgeois historiography. D. I. Ismail-zade introduces systematized and analyzed data on both the process of resettlement itself and the policy of tsarism in this matter. The book contains maps compiled by the author from archival sources-diagrams of Russian settlements in ... Читать далее