Tatyana V. Bauer

PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian History

Petrozavodsk State University

(Petrozavodsk, Russia)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2024-2-159-171

Abstract. The paper is a review of a collective monograph prepared by the staff of the RAS Center for Humanitarian Problems of the Barents Region of the Kola Science Center, the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local History. The study highlights the processes of the resident population formation on the Kola Peninsula in the difficult interwar period. The review summarizes the contents of the five chapters. The objects of study in these chapters are various social and professional groups that played a significant role in the scientific and industrial development of the Kola North and influenced the formation of the historical and cultural specifics of the region. The distinctive characteristics of the peer-reviewed monograph are the comprehensive developing of the theme, the extensive source base with a focus on unique archival materials and hard-to-find published sources, attention to both macro- and microhistorical subjects, emphasis on the processes of identity formation of the inhabitants of the northern territories, as well as the construction of the Kola North image and the regional history.
Keywords: Kola North, 1920 – 1930s, social groups, socio-cultural dynamics, industrialization, frontier, identity.

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For citation: Bauer, TV 2024, ‘Book Review: ‘Population of the Kola Peninsula Between the Two World Wars: View of Historians and Anthropologists’ (ed. by O. V. Zmeyeva, Moscow: Nauka, 2022. 366 p.)’, Tula Scientific Bulletin. History. Linguistics, issue 2 (18), pp. 159–171, http://doi.org/10.22405/2712-8407-2024-2-159-171 (in Russ.)

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