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Issue 2 (47)

EVOLUTION OF THE MINING DISTRICT POPULATION OF THE URAL AS A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY (18TH–19TH CENTURIES)
Year	2015	Number	2(47)
Pages	118-124	Type	scientific article
UDC	94(470.5) «17/18»	BBK	63.3(235.55)513
Authors	Shkerin Vladimir A. Golikova Svetlana V.	Topic	PEOPLES OF THE URAL
Summary	The article describes the process of the evolution of the Ural's region from the isolated territories as a result of major industrial development. The indigenous peoples (mostly the Bashkirs) met the mining development with hostility. Main labor resources for the new mines and factories were the Russian and, to a certain extent, the Ukrainian peasants. The peasants' attitude towards the move from the remote provinces of the Russian Empire to the Urals mines and factories was also negative. For their descendants — the artisans — this memory of the forced relocation of their ancestors was part of victimization process, contributing to the perception of themselves as a sacrifice to the industrial Moloch. Victimization, which also fed upon other myths and ideas, was a consolidating factor for the mining district community. Another, even more consolidating, factor was factory work — hard and technically complex, and requiring narrow specialization. This nature of work gave the mining district population a feeling of superiority over peasants, which was recognized by the contemporary educated classes.
Keywords	Ural mfu population, peasants, artisans, workers indispensable, ethno-cultural community, consolidation, victimization, industrial labor, cultural differences, symbolic boundaries
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