‘Borders and frontiers in the history of Russian South’ (the materials of all-Russian scholarly conference, Rostov-on-Don, publishing house of Southern Federal University, 26–27 September 2014)

Abstract

This review is devoted to the collection of articles ‘Borders and frontiers in the history of Russian South’, which included articles covering, to various extent, problems within the framework of the interdisciplinary approach towards borders and frontiers, known in Russia as the science of limology. The review discusses advantages and disadvantages of the collection compilation, covers the articles themselves, based on their scientific relevance and authors' specialization, as well as reviews on the topic of Austrian military frontier as a specific example for historical comparativistics.

Keywords

• frontier
• borders
• borderzone
• limology
• historical geography
• history of russian south
• one's own – another's
• cultural memory
• cossacks