THE POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE «NOMADIC EMPIRES» OF EURASIA (historiography of problem)

Аннотация

Main conceptual positions and methodological paradigms to problem power and authority in the «nomadic empires» are considered in the article. The presented historiographical analysis shows that the power in nomadic formations and the Mongolian empire itself was a complex and internally structured political phenomenon. The effectiveness of theoretical and methodological constructions raises the task for researchers to study administrative institutions of nomadic formations, a new quality of scientific knowledge requires their reconstruction as a complex of different types and models of power, united in a single imperial structure. At the present stage of the development of historical science, specialists are interested in developing criteria, models and typologization of the structures of the nomadic society, which would allow us to express definitively on the problems of the addition of the political and administrative system of the nomadic empires. The complex and ambiguous nature of the development of political institutions of nomads makes promising the application of system principles for the analysis of power structures, the social system and the peculiarities of the process of transformation in nomadic empires. The article deals with different conceptual positions and approaches to the problem power and authority institutes of the nomadic society and presents historiographical review of the modern historical science.