In the conditions of the current geopolitical crisis and in connection with the aggravation of the confrontation of the “collective West" with other geopolitical centers of world development, a profound transformation of various value systems is taking place, affecting modern science as well. First of all, this concerns history and law, since they play a key role in the formation and institutionalization of such values. Against the background of growing political, economic and ideological turbulence, the issue of rewriting history and revising the norms of national and international law is particularly acute, in connection with which ideas and concepts that are questionable from the point of view of objective reliability are becoming widespread. One of such concepts is the American frontier theory, according to which the “frontier factor" has a decisive influence on the formation and development of human civilization. This concept does not have a clearly defined categorical apparatus and therefore allows us to interpret specific historical facts in different ways, which indicates a growing subjectivism and anti-historicism. The purpose of the study is a comparative analysis of the frontier view of the history of resettlement processes in the space of our country and its fundamental difference from the Americanized concept of colonization.