The Regional Peculiarities and Identity of the Ural Old Industrial District: Socio-Topological Aspects

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2022.1.675

Keywords:

regional peculiarities, regional identity, old industrial districts, management practices, mining districts, handicrafts and crafts, social topology

Abstract

Starting with the large-scale transformations of Peter the Great in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the mining industry of the Urals was subjected to increased state and legal regulation. Based on theoretical aspects of social topology, an attempt is made to describe the influence of the regional peculiarities and identity of the Ural old industrial region on the forms of management and social practices of the region’s mining economy. The work’s purpose is to identify the difference in the organisation of factory production, depending on the form of ownership of the enterprise: state, possessional, or allodial. It is necessary to identify the role of administrative and economic practices and constraining and developing factors: the vast territory and the predominance of traditional management and everyday practices, on which private and state entrepreneurship had been based on for a long time. The dual system of mining and civil administrations led to the emergence of complex phenomena like the district system (V. V. Adamov) and polymorphism (I. V. Poberezhnikov). The authors try to substantiate one of the main reasons for increased social turbulence in the early twentieth century. On the basis of this study, it can be assumed that in the conditions of a balanced development of industry at the micro-, meso-, and macro- levels, the need to resort to the levers of mobilisation and forced modernisation decreased due to the sufficient availability of financial, industrial, natural, and human resources.

Author Biographies

Sergey Azarenko

Dr. Hab. (Philosophy), Professor, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin.

19, Mira Str., 620002, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

ORCID 0000-0001-6658-5177

sergey_azarenko@mail.ru

Andrey Keller

Dr. Hab. (History), Senior Researcher, Laboratory for the Study of Primary Sources, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin.

19, Mira Str., 620002, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

ORCID 0000-0002-9086-1079

a.v.keller@urfu.ru

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Published

2022-03-26

How to Cite

Azarenko, S., & Keller, A. (2022). The Regional Peculiarities and Identity of the Ural Old Industrial District: Socio-Topological Aspects. Quaestio Rossica, 10(1), 335–352. https://doi.org/10.15826/qr.2022.1.675

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