ГОРОДСКАЯ И СЕЛЬСКАЯ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ ПРИАЗОВЬЯ: УСТНО-ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ
URBAN AND RURAL IDENTITIES: METHODOGICAL ASPECTS AND SOME RESULTS OF THE ORAL HISTORY RESEARCHES OF IMAGES OF CITIES OF PRYAZOVYA AND URBANIZATION PROCESSES IN THE REGION

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the methodology and results of the oral history expeditions aimed at studying the urban and rural identities in the context of the research of the Northern Pryazovya citizens’ perception of peasant settlers and their place in the social structure of cities. Materials of these oral history expeditions give the opportunity to see through the eyes of the Northern Pryazovya inhabitants, of the first half of the twentieth century, the urbanization processes of this period; to make some observations about how deeply in the minds of the urban population of this region rooted myths and stereotypes about peasant-settlers and vice versa. The urbanization processes have been one of the most significant characteristics of the Northern Pryazovya history from the last quarter of the XVІII century. It is substantiated that the rural element played a prominent role in the urban colonization of the region; the character of perception by traditional rural population of Pryazovya of new settlements in a certain extent influenced the course of urbanization; the formation of «urban lifestyle» has undergone a significant impact on the part of the rural population life of the region; the categories «Own» -«Alien» were among the key in the perception by the peasant population of the region of the urban citizens; the cities since the time of their appearance played a role of outposts of policy of unification and centralization in the region, which was one of the reasons of the ambiguous attitude of the local peasants to the urban way of life.

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