ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

Keywords: North Caucasian society, post-reform modernization, nationwide identity, socio-cultural phenomenon, enlightenment, popular readings, Society for popular readings organizing

The processes of post-reform modernization of the second half of 19th – the beginning of 20th centuries attached a new impulse to the problem of improvement of nationwide identity in Russia, in a certain degree facilitating to identification of local traditional cultures with nationwide culture. The unified cultural standard broadcasting over the whole territory of country led to forming of new cultural traditions and promoted solving of the strategic tasks, the most important of which was enlightenment. In the article on the North Caucasian example one of valuable mechanisms for enlightenment of people – popular readings which became bright social-cultural phenomenon in daily life of the Russian’s citizens in the period under review.