The City in Russian Culture by Pavel Lyssakov Stephen M Norris

Author:Pavel Lyssakov,Stephen M Norris
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Researchers problematized rural practices reproduced in the city by migrants because they did not correspond with Soviet standards. In the opinion of scholars, this phenomenon impeded the progressive movement of the city. These practices, they interpreted, persisted despite being archaic, and could be explained by the stagnation of rural life and the conservatism of migrants. Former peasants were labeled “backward” people with underdeveloped political consciousness (Hoffmann 2000, p. 3). In particular, the problem of women’s emancipation was recognized – as the peasants in the city reproduced the traditional division of labor (Andrusz 1980, p. 16). Territorial communities were often seen as another anachronism – it was an unnecessary intermediate link between the village and the city, and communities were criticized for creating alternative solidarities to class (Ianitskii 1975, p. 282). Another problem discussed by sociologists was social passivity and a lack of creativity among migrants. Ovsei Shkaratan noted that in the first five-year plan,

[A] type of impersonal city dweller emerged, dweller “in general”, without obvious local characteristics, people, for whom “our” ends with the threshold of their room or apartment. Cities, streets, clubs, courtyards, and houses became “nobody’s” – “public”.

(Shkaratan 1991, p. 16)

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