Open AccessSocial and economical space of the Murmansk railway construction: railway builders and the population of the adjoin territories during the World War I.
Author(s) -
Elena Dubrovskaya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
trudy kolʹskogo naučnogo centra ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2307-5252
DOI - 10.37614/2307-5252.2020.1.18.002
Subject(s) - identity (music) , politics , population , geopolitics , space (punctuation) , state (computer science) , first world war , resistance (ecology) , regional science , political science , economy , sociology , economic geography , geography , history , law , ancient history , linguistics , aesthetics , demography , computer science , economics , ecology , philosophy , algorithm , biology
Based on archive materials and published sources the paper shows the professional identity of various categories of construction-and office-workers of the Murmansk railway. The growing geopolitical significance of Karelia and Kola North during the World War I determined by the construction of Murmansk railway became the factor which required new reference points and values. The latter was clearly defined either by peculiarities of regional cultural traditions or by social, political and economical interests of the state. The author traces the identical models common to railway builders, which highly differed from the model of nation-wide Russian identity demonstrated by provincial publicistic writing of the region. On the local material of the White-Sea Region is shown the resistance of the local population of the land to the processes of socialidentity mass destabilization, which increased atthe war time and especially duringthe Russian revolution 1917.