Elena Vyacheslavovna Baranova,
Candidate of Historical Science, Associate Professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dmitry Vladimirovich Mankevich,
Candidate of Historical Science, Associate Professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Vitaly Nikolaevich Maslov,
Candidate of Historical Science, Associate Professor, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Angelina Vyacheslavovna Stalmakova,
Postgraduate Student, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Historiography of Postwar Settlement in the Kaliningrad Region in the Context of Soviet National Migrations
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-4-10
Post-Soviet decades are characterized by growing attention to the problems of demographic history of Russia (USSR) as a whole, as well as of individual regions of the country in modern times. For the Kaliningrad region, one of the central themes is that of the settlement of the region in the postwar period, on which local historians, as well as researchers from some donor regions (Belarus, the Bryansk, Pskov, Kirov regions, Mordovia) work predominantly. In Soviet regional historiography (E.M. Kolganova, V.S. Isupov, etc.) the priority subjects were the organization and dynamics of the settlement of the region, the role of the Communist Party in the arrangement of migrants. In the post-Soviet time works appeared, the authors of which investigated the issues of recruitment, the difficulties of moving and settling in, the phenomenon of “backflow”, the national composition and social appearance of migrants, the features and economic aspects of the settlement system, the typical and unique in the demographic development of the region (Yu.V. Kostyashov, V.N. Maslov, E.A. Maslov, M.G. Shenderyuk, D.V. Mankevich, E.V. Baranova and others). Radical expansion of a circle of sources allowed to specify or reconsider a number of the representations developed in Soviet time; introduction in a scientific turn of materials of oral history – to consider process of settlement of edge from historical-anthropological positions; digital processing of echelon lists of migrants – to reveal not obvious earlier aspects of social and economic shape of “first wave” of migrants to the countryside. The topic of the settlement of the region is integrated into the context of all-union migrations thanks to the studies of O.V. Gorbachev, N.V. Chernysheva, S.A. Piskunov, and V.V. Kanischev. The most studied to date is planned agricultural resettlement, the least studied is the process of formation of Kaliningrad urban population.
Publishing: 28/08/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 15/03/2023
How to cite: Baranova Е.V., Mankevich D.V., Maslov В.N., Stalmakova A.V. Historiography of Postwar Settlement in the Kaliningrad Region in the Context of Soviet National Migrations // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 4 (30), pp. 133–151. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-4-10.pdf]
The article was carried out within the framework of the project “Migration as a Factor in the Social Transformation of the Regions of the USSR during the Post-War Recovery: Analysis by Digital Humanities” (Scientific and Educational Laboratory of interdisciplinary empirical research of the Higher School of Economics – Perm and the Research Center for Social and Humanitarian Informatics of the Baltic Federal University named after Immanuel Kant).
Links: Issue 4 2023
Keywords: history of the USSR; Kaliningrad region; historiography; migration; migrants; demography; Soviet man