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- Title
UKRAINIANS IN WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19<sup>th</sup> - EARLY 20<sup>th</sup> CENTURY: SPECIFIC FEATURES CHARACTERIZING THEIR RESETTLEMENT AND ECONOMIC ADAPTATION.
- Authors
SHAIDUROV, Vladimir
- Abstract
Russia was a traditional empire which emerged between the late Middle Ages and Modern Times. The national composition of its population formed over 16-19 centuries through the addition of new territories. There were about 100 different nations, peoples, ethnic groups, and tribes living here in the early 20th century. Each of them took its place in the social, political and economic life of the country. One of the largest ethnic communities was founded by Ukrainians who were finally co-opted into Russia in the late 18th century. Already the second half of 17-18th centuries identified areas in which Ukrainians played a major role for Russia: the Orthodox Church (higher clergy), border security (Cossacks), and agricultural production (peasants). Reforms launched by Peter the Great and Catherine the Great resulted in the fact that only Ukrainian peasants preserved their value. In the 19th century, Russian agricultural sector, a deep crisis, which was based on agrarian overpopulation in the European part, arose as a result of conservation antagonisms between peasants and nobility, landowners, the lack of support from the state, backlog in the agronomy. In the conditions of that time, the only solution was to relocate peasants to the outskirts of the state, where there was plenty of free fertile land. The active resettlement campaign in Asiatic Russia resulted in a dramatic leap in the population and gave impetus to the economic development of Siberia and the Far East. This also gave rise to new ethnic communities. One of the largest groups was the Ukrainian community (more than 700 thousand people.). Current scientific literature pays much attention to the history of Jewish, Polish, and German communities. The life of Ukrainians in Siberia remains in the shadow of the history of the Russian population in the region. But the Ukrainian community had specific features which distinguished the processes how it formed and developed in the new environment. The issue of the adaptation of Ukrainians in Siberia is of particular interest. The article identifies stages in the formation of the Ukrainian community in Siberia and analyzes their characteristics (geography of previous and new places of residence and migration dynamics and results), examines the features describing how Ukrainians adapted to their new conditions. The main source for this article has been provided by published and archival materials that have not been previously used by researchers.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; UKRAINIANS; LAND settlement; ETHNIC groups; ORTHODOX Eastern Church; BORDER security
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 1, p313
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2016.12