PRESENTATION OF FORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN-CHINESE BORDER IN RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF XIX - THE BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

Abstract

The author presents analysis of historiographic sources of XIX – beginning of ХХ centuries on the Russian-Chinese borderline on the basis of postmodernist limological conception in which the border is considered as a special social representation, complete structure of various elements: ethnic, national, economic, military, administrative and other territorial identities.