Identity transformations and ethnocultural memory peoples of Asian Russia at the end of the 19th–20th centuries

FROM THE EDITOR OF THE RUBRIC

Abstract

Unprecedented in scale migration processes and the pace of modernization of the way of life at the end of the 19th century and throughout XX centuries contributed to profound transformations of the identity and ethnocultural memory of the peoples of Asian Russia. Final assigning it to the Russian state “Eastern frontier”, which occurred in the second half of the 19th century, led to new forms of interethnic interactions that had a significant impact on the culture and ethnic self-awareness of the peoples of Siberia and Far East. Thanks to the peasants resettlement in vast territories stretching beyond the Urals, the majority of ethnic and ethno-local groups of Eastern Slavs and a number of other peoples who migrated from the European part of the Russian Empire. In addition to adapting to new natural and climatic conditions throughout most of the twentieth century. these peoples underwent transformations of their ethnic traditions in the context of the implementation of the socio-economic and cultural policies of the Soviet state.