title: Ethnic discrimination in late imperial Russia
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metadata.value: Mironov, Boris Nikolaevich
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T13:38:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T13:38:29Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Mironov B. N. Ethnic discrimination in late imperial Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 1, pp. 164–185.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.113
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6371
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The Russian Empire was multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Empire in which the “titular” ethnic group
  was in the minority. In 1646, the Russian share accounted for about 90 % of the total population, by
  1917 only 43 %. This article examines the sectoral structure of employment of the people of the Russian
  Empire according to material from the first all-Russian census of the population in 1897 and on this basis it evaluates the ethnic status of various groups and their role in the economic and social life of the country.
  All ethnic groups were represented in the government (administration, the courts, police, the social
  and estate service) and also in the army, including Jews, Yakuts, Romani, Chechens, and Abkhazians,
  each roughly proportional to its share in the population of the empire (with the exception of Jews in the
  administration). But in various spheres of economic activity the ethnic groups participated in different
  ways, depending on their inclination and cultural traditions. Ethnic discrimination was observed almost
  exclusively in relation to unbaptized Jews. So-called ‘Russification’ contributed to the fact that those representatives
  of non-Russian ethic groups who received a Russian education had the opportunity to take
  administrative positions and participate more actively in the management of their region.
  The government’s flexible ethnoconfessional policy ensured the absence of ethnic discrimination.
  This policy stipulated the status quo the new area and its population, extensive cooperation with
  the local elites, religious and ethnic tolerance, creating some advantages in the legal status of non-Russians
  in comparison with Russian, the right of indigenous peoples of annexed territories to be civilian
  actors on par with Russians. Such management techniques by a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional
  population allowed for gradual integration of various ethnic groups into the Empire, inclusion into a
  unified Imperial economic, legal and social space, alignment of their level of development by creating
  additional benefits for lagging regions, modernization of traditional society at “the outskirts” with
  their particular economic, legal and social structures, and to ensure the long preservation of the unity
  of the Russian Empire. Refs 85. Tables 3.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда (проект № 15-18-00119).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia 1600–1900
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethno-religious politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: foreign historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the ethnic composition of the population
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: underdeveloped state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sectoral structure of employment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ethnic discrimination in late imperial Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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