Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / For the Sake of Faith of for the Sake of Land? Religion as a Factor of Conflicts between Migrants and Old-Dwellers in the Course of the Great Siberian Migration (Evidence from the Ognevo Village, Biysk District)

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2018 11 (9)
Authors
Kirillov, Alexey K.; Karavayeva, Anastasiya G.
Contact information
Kirillov, Alexey K.: Institute of History SB RAS 8 Nikolaeva Str., Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090, Russia; ; Karavayeva, Anastasiya G.: State Archive of the Tomsk Region 78 Vodyanaya Str., Tomsk, 634009, Russia;
Keywords
Migration; Post-reform Russia; Stolypin’s migration; Old-Believers of Altai; Migration drivers
Abstract

The article draws reader’s attention to the peasant migration from European Russia to Siberia between the abolition of serfdom at Russia (1861) and World War I (1914). This phenomenon is well known as an example of successful migration that gave a powerful impetus to the development of Siberia. But the issue of the reasons that prevented this process from becoming as influential as the massive transatlantic resettlement of Europeans in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century has not been sufficiently studied yet. In search of the answer the authors take for consideration conflicts between Siberian old dwellers and newcomers. In historiography one of the reasons for the clashes between them is considered to be the religious contradictions between the supporters of the official Orthodoxy (those who came from European Russia) and the Old Believers popular among the old dwellers. The authors take the village of Ognevo (Altai) as a subject for a case study. This case is covered comprehensively by documents coming from both the migrants and the old dwellers as well as from the state officials who had to face the peasants’ complaints. The authors conclude that religion was just an excuse for conflicts. The real cause of the conflict is the lack of land, which became a scarce resource for the first time in Siberia right in the period of the Great Siberian migration

Pages
1399-1411
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/72271

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