Albina Alekseevna Kozhaeva,
Master’s Student, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Labor as a Basis for the Restoration of Rights and a Tool of Socialization in the Soviet Way (1926–1936) (Based on the Materials of Western Siberia)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-1-6
In the Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918, labor was proclaimed the duty of citizens. The idea of compulsory labor activity became central in the context of Soviet state building. In order to ensure control over groups of the population that are potentially alien to the Soviet government (former, merchants and entrepreneurs, clergymen, etc.), categories of persons deprived of voting rights were enshrined in the said Constitution. By 1926, the system of deprivation was formalized, and labor became the main basis for the restoration of rights. The article is devoted to the study of the labor adaptation of the deprived, which was indicated in their ego documents. Based on the analysis of petitions for the restoration of the rights of the deprived of Novosibirsk, as well as the Maslyaninsky and Iskitimsky districts of Western Siberia, the portrait of the deprived in the sphere of labor is reconstructed. According to the author, the work was not only the basis for the restoration of rights, but also an argument given by the deprived to prove their loyalty to the authorities. In addition, the article provides a justification for the fact that selective discrimination significantly affected the employment of deprived. Groups of deprived are identified depending on the impact of legal discrimination on their work history.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 25.10.2022
How to cite: Kozhaeva A.A. Labor as a Basis for the Restoration of Rights and a Tool of Socialization in the Soviet Way (1926–1936) (Based on the Materials of Western Siberia) // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 1 (27), pp. 78–89. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-1-06.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2023
Keywords: deprived; social and legal discrimination; marginality; labor adaptation; Siberia; USSR