Immigrants from Villages in Large Industrial Cities: Based on Materials from Katerynslav at the end of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries
Tetiana Portnova
Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National UniversityMay, 20 2010 / 4.30 pm
Center for Urban History, Lviv
The project by Center grantee Tetiana Portnova is dedicated to the peculiarities of urbanization in the industrial region of southeastern Ukraine, and more specifically – the role peasants play in forming the atmosphere and character of that area. Migration is seen as a space for contact (and conflict) between urban and village cultures.
The following questions are proposed for consideration:
- The specific characteristics of the lives of rural migrants in large industrial cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the depth of their integration into the urban environment;
- Social characteristics of new city dwellers in the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries – workers and villagers;
- The reaction of "old" urban dwellers toward those newly arrived.
Tetiana Portnova
is a junior researcher at the History of the Prydniprovskoho Region research lab, which is associated with the Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University. In 2008, she defended her dissertation, which was devoted to the image of the peasantry in Ukrainian social thought in the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Her academic interests are intellectual history and historical urbanism.
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