scholarly journals Foreign Nationals in Yekaterinburg: At the Dawn of the City’s Social Organisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Redin
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Community Integration ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
History Of

The intensive development of metallurgy in the Urals in the 1720s is closely associated with the construction of Yekaterinburg, which became not only the largest and most diversified metallurgical plant city in Russia, but also the administrative centre of the mining industry in the east of the empire. The construction of the city under the leadership of an outstanding specialist and personal representative of Peter the Great, Georg Wilhelm de Gennin (Wilim Ivanovich Gennin), took into account the latest Western trends in industrial and fortification architecture. This affected the spatial planning and functional zoning of this mining city. It also had an important impact on its social organisation. A striking feature of Yekaterinburg was the high concentration of immigrants from European countries. Foreign nationals worked in the local administration and held a majority among the officers who commanded army units during the construction of the plant city. Also, the first doctors, the founders of the medical service in the Urals, were non-Russian. However, most specialists dealt with metallurgy and mining. Yekaterinburg became both their place of residence and a staging post on their way to other factories and mines in the region. The contribution of these people to the formation and development of the industry in the region can hardly be overestimated. Nevertheless, there is still no special comprehensive study of this population category in early Yekaterinburg. This article is an attempt to consider the history of foreign immigrants as a social whole in Yekaterinburg society during the first decade of its existence. The author identifies their features and the factors that promoted and hindered intra-community integration, concluding that by the end of the first decade of Yekaterinburg’s life, it had failed to form an influential and relatively homogeneous colony of foreign nationals: their number had noticeably decreased compared to the 1720s. The formation of a full-fledged community was hampered by marked differences in the legal status of foreigners and a lack of corporate privileges. Other factors were a minimised sphere of private life (which made it impossible for them to create stable internal organisation) and internal professional competition. However, the most important thing was high geographic mobility, which gave rise to quantitative and qualitative instability in the community.

scholarly journals Mining Possession in Russia in the Confrontation Between the State and Factory Owners at the Turn of the XIX and XX Centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-143
Author(s):  
Evgeny G. Neklyudov
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Legal Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire

Introduction. The study is aimed at determining the importance of the legal factor in the development of large-scale industrial production in a developing economy. It is devoted to the study of the unique possession law in the mining industry of the Russian Empire. Materials and Methods. On the basis of the documentation of the commissions and institutions of the mining department, legislation, journalism and scientific literature, the history of the preparation of the reform of possession law in the mining industry in Russia is reconstructed, covering the second half of the XIX – early XX centuries. Particular attention is paid to the discussion about the essence of this restrictive right, which extended to the factories of the Urals, Zamoskovye and the Caucasus. Results and Discussion. It is shown that the views of the state and breeders-possessors initially coincided on the need to abolish the possession rights, but fundamentally differed in terms of its qualifications, which was reflected in the development of a reform option that suited both parties. At the turn of the XIX and XX centuries this led to an open confrontation between the state and the plant owners, who advocated alternative projects of redemption or opening of the possessions. Conclusion. In this situation, the general reform of possession law was replaced by a fairly effective practice of individual removal from factories of an obsolete legal status.

Time Lost, Time Regained: Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
Lost Time

This article discusses Billy Wilder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which, though not enthusiastically received by audiences at the time, has subsequently become a work highly valued by critics and cineastes. Radically cut from its original four-part structure by the studio, it has come to be perceived as a film about loss. This relates both to its themes – suppressed love, the vanished world of Holmes and Watson – and to the history of the film itself, whose missing episodes exist only in fragmentary form. The first part of the essay looks at the ways in which the film constructs an image of Sherlock Holmes (played by Robert Stephen), with a focus on the question of his sexuality, while the second part turns to the ways in which the film became an ‘obsession’ for one writer in particular, the novelist Jonathan Coe.

The Legal Status of Local Government in South Africa under the New Constitutional Dispensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mbuzeni Mathenjwa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First Time

The history of local government in South Africa dates back to a time during the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. With regard to the status of local government, the Union of South Africa Act placed local government under the jurisdiction of the provinces. The status of local government was not changed by the formation of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 because local government was placed under the further jurisdiction of the provinces. Local government was enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa arguably for the first time in 1993. Under the interim Constitution local government was rendered autonomous and empowered to regulate its affairs. Local government was further enshrined in the final Constitution of 1996, which commenced on 4 February 1997. The Constitution refers to local government together with the national and provincial governments as spheres of government which are distinctive, interdependent and interrelated. This article discusses the autonomy of local government under the 1996 Constitution. This it does by analysing case law on the evolution of the status of local government. The discussion on the powers and functions of local government explains the scheme by which government powers are allocated, where the 1996 Constitution distributes powers to the different spheres of government. Finally, a conclusion is drawn on the legal status of local government within the new constitutional dispensation.

The Contemporary Serbian Historiography on Women in the Independent Serbian State (1878–1918): An Overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 62-75
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Lobacheva
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
Current Stage

This article aims to consider how Serbian scholars/historians approach to the study of Serbian women in the history of the independent Serbian state and the Serbian society in 1878–1918 at the current stage of the research (from the beginning of 1990th until 2017). This paper will give an overview of some of the main areas of historical studies considering Serbian women’s “being and life”. For example the historiography on history of “women’s question” including women’s movement and/or feminism will be considered as well as biographical research, the study of women’s position through the lens of the modernization process in Serbia in the 19th and 20th Century, Serbian women’s issues in gender studies and through the history of everyday and private life and family, the analysis of the perception of Serbian woman by outside observers including the study of the image of Serbian woman created/constructed by “others”.

From the history of the NKVD “national operations” in 1937, 1938 years in Kyrgyzstan. Repression of ethnical minority

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10-3) ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Bolotbek Abdrakhmanov
Keyword(s):  
New Materials ◽  
Foreign Nationals ◽  
The Real ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ruling Party

To analyze the repressive policy of the ruling party and NKVD organs towards the foreigners who lived in Kyrgyzstan in 1937-1938 years. The real materials being used in this research make it possible to think over the events of that complicated period in a new way and give them certain appreciation. Therefore the main aim of the article is to bring together new materials to through the light on the nature of the mass repressions towards a number of soviet citizens as foreign nationals.

GENRE OF THE EPISTLE IN THE LYRICS BY M. I. NOVJUKHOV

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Е.В. Косинцева
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Personal Conversation ◽  
History Of

В истории хантыйской литературы к жанру послания обратился только Матвей Иванович Новьюхов. В данной статье анализу подвергаются послания, вошедшие в книгу М.И. Новьюхова «С надеждой на счастье» (2012). Хантыйским поэтом представлены дружеские, любовные послания и послания-письма родным. Диалогическая природа жанра сильнее всего проявилась в дружеских и любовных посланиях хантыйского стихотворца. Диалог с мансийским поэтом Юваном Шесталовым позволил автору размышлять о месте и роли поэта в обществе. М.И. Новьюхов подчеркивает высокое предназначение поэта в жизни общества, не случайно в одном из посланий к основоположнику мансийской литературы он ставит рядом два понятия «поэт» и «гражданин». Частная жизнь и биографические реалии ярче представлены в любовных посланиях и посланиях-письмах к родным. Послания к членам семьи (брату, дочери) носят характер личной беседы. Образцы любовного послания содержит трогательные признания, адресованные возлюбленной. In the history of Khanty literature, only Matvey Ivanovich Novlukhov addressed to the genre of the epistle. The article analyzes the epistles included in the book of M. I. Novjukhov "With Hope For Happiness" (2012). The Khanty poet presents the friendly, love epistles and letters to relatives. The dialogic nature of the genre was most strongly manifested in the friendly and love epistles. The dialogue with the Mansi poet Yuvan Shestalov allowed the author to reflect on the place and role of a poet in society. Novjukhov emphasizes the high purpose of a poet in the life of society. It is no coincidence that in one of the epistles to the founder of Mansi literature, he puts the two concepts of "poet" and "citizen" side by side. Private life and biographical realities are more vividly represented in love epistles and letters to relatives. The epistles to family members (brother, daughter) are in the nature of a personal conversation. Samples of love epistles contain heartwarming declarations of love addressed to his beloved.

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