The Political and Legal Ideal of Siberian Regionalists of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries in Russian Historiography: An Experience of Periodization and Classification

The goal of this paper is to identify and show the dynamics of historiographic innovations in the interpretation of the political and legal ideology of Siberian regionalists.An attempt is also made to periodize and classify the historiographic narratives of regionalism, which we understand as a system of views on the state, power, law and territorial structure of Russia, formed in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century and actively existed until the beginning of the 20th century among the diverse intelligentsia in Siberia.The study was conducted based on the axiological approach, the principle of holism and the historicalcomparative method.Such a comprehensive toolkit will allow us to identify the value orientations of scientists in the field of "regional studies", to consider them in unity and integrity, to compare historiographic narratives of the political and legal doctrine of Siberian regionalists on substantive and other grounds.The material for the study was a corpus of research works by historians, philosophers, sociologists, lawyers, political scientists and philologists on the problems of political and legal views of representatives of the regionalist ideology.It was established that pre-revolutionary interpretations of the ideal of Siberian regionalists in the field of politics and law were carried out by the participants of the regionalist movement themselves in the Soviet period; all sorts of distortions and frequent caricature forms in the interpretations of the program of Siberian activists were markers of ideological positioning.In the era of "democratic transition", that is, the end of the 1990s -beginning of the 2000s, fruitful attempts at commemorative work on the legacy of the leaders of the Siberian regionalists movement, a sharp increase in the number of publications, dissertation research and scientific and practical conferences were made.A characteristic feature of the modern body of research on the problems of the political and legal ideology of regionalists is the growth of interdisciplinary work among not only historians, but also art historians, lawyers, philosophers, sociologists, philologists.