Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Workers in Forests: Social Identity and Labour Motivation in Timber Industry of Karelia in 1917-1928

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Workers in Forests: Social Identity and Labour Motivation in Timber Industry of Karelia in 1917-1928

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (3)
Authors: Kulagin, Oleg I.
Contact information: Kulagin, Oleg I.: Petrozavodsk State University, 33 Lenina, Petrozavodsk, 185910 Russia; e-mail:
Keywords: timber industry in Karelia; working class history; social self-identification; labour motivation
Abstract: Nowadays Russian historical science tries to find new methods and research fields in the process of overcoming problems of the Soviet-Marxist historical heritage. One of these attempts is concerned with elaborating some alternative research approaches for changing stereotypes of Soviet Marxism in the field of working class history. One of such changes consists in the attempt to use socio-cultural reconstruction of Soviet social being. This article is dedicated to studying labor relations during the first decade of the Soviet period (1917-1928) on the example of timber industry of Northwestern Russia and Karelia. The main problem for researching is: what was a real social image and labour motivation among first Soviet timber workers? The article was created mainly based on the archive documents from the National Archive of Republic of Karelia.
Pages: 406-414
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9630