Journal of International Network Center for Fundamental and Applied Research

123-128

Authors: Mamuka Gogitidze, Iya Shiukashvili

The article discusses the school of ensign’s infantry in Georgia during the First world war. The attention is paid to the process of schools’ formation, the preparatory process, as well as the number of trained personnel for the imperial army. The materials for the preparation of this article werethe normative-legal acts of the Russian Empire, as well as research on the topic of the publication. The methodological basis of the study was the principles of objectivity and historicism, suggesting an unbiased approach to the analysis of the studied problems, a critical attitude to the sources, the judgments in the analysis of the totality of the facts and the screening phenomena in the development and the context of the historical situation. In conclusion the authors note that during the war the school warrant issued approximately 108970 officers, of which 23653 were produced on the territory of the Caucasian military district.

139-146

Authors: Amiran T. Urushadze

The article considers a complex of various socio-political problems in the North Caucasus, combine category «Circassian question». It is shown that various elements of the «Circassian question» have objectively-historical causality. The article prepared on the basis of a series of expert interviews conducted by the author in Kabardino-Balkar Republic in 2012–2014. The discussion around the «Circassian question» affect fundamental problems of nation-building and administrative-territorial reform of all North Caucasus. The concept of creating a single Circassian Republic can be considered as part of the «Circassian question» and as a separate socio-political issue, with objective historical reasons. In other words, the «Circassian question» includes components that have their own history of formation and development logic. The resolution of these issues, in particular issues of nation-building, can take place independently as long overdue. The greatest danger fraught with precisely the marginalization of numerous contradictions. This leads to the preservation of inter-ethnic problems and fuels the conflict potential in the region.