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Dissertation Information for William Theodore Karasik

NAME:
- William Theodore Karasik

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Ivan T. Berend

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Anna Simons
- Peter Kenez

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Revolution and civil war in Arkhangel'sk, 1917-1920

Abstract: During the revolution and civil war, the Russian north had a particular view of regional identity. The native population itself, a divide between the locals and newcomers from the center, climate, geography, and finally the use of space (property rights) promoted the emergence of self-identity throughout an isolated circumpolar region. The absence of the Mongol-Tartar yoke, serfdom and landlord property rights as seen in the rest of Russia led to freedom of personality and local identity. Active trade and contacts with Nordic countries also helped to construct a northern identity in Arkhangel'sk.

The Arkhangel'sk regional governments consistently rejected zemstva and were forced to accept cooperatives by British forces. Democracy--in terms of Northern attitudes--were at stake. But the North lacked the resources, both human and material, to exist separately from Russia as it underwent revolutionary change.

In the Russian North, nature affects the way residents use the land for economic development and political recognition and identity. Although the minimal outline for cultural geography suggests that space must be recognized as a social product, one must understand how the relation of place and narration occurs over time particularly in the Northern Russia. Regional resistance (literally a passion for place) can become part of separate drives toward capitalism. In Arkhangel'sk, concepts surrounding globalization through the British colonial model failed to take hold. The Supreme Government and the Provisional Government of the Northern Region lacked legitimacy. There could be no better indication, save open rebellion, of the gap that separated the residents from the government in Arkhangel'sk during the revolutions and civil war. The events that unfolded in Arkhangel'sk between 1917-1920 were perhaps revolutionary in their own right.

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