Повседневность железнодорожного строительства на Севере России: сооружение Мурманской магистрали и перемены революционного 1917 года

Abstract

Based on archive materials and published sources the paper studies the questions of railway builders' every-day life during the construction of the Murmansk railway as well as in 1917, the period of revolutionary changes. The author suggests aspects of transformation of some social values, which provoked social strain condition and strengthened old psychological stereotypes at the same time. The study shows such daily structures as human being attitude to surrounding world’s belongings, relationship with other people and social mood. The railway builders, who have become unwilling settlers in the North of Russia, felt polycultural character of the region they found themselves together with thousands of other working migrants to Karelia and Kola North. Increasing of ethnic criminality connected with arriving of Chinese workers is identified as one of the factors, which made every-day life of construction workers and office- workers unstable.