Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union

Eric Lohr

Published by Harvard University Press 2012

Russian Citizenship

From Empire to Soviet Union

Eric Lohr

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067806

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About this book

Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin’s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude. His research reveals that the Russian attitude toward citizenship was less xenophobic and isolationist and more similar to European attitudes than has been previously thought—until the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off and set it apart.

Drawing on untapped sources in the Russian police and foreign affairs archives, Lohr’s research is grounded in case studies of immigration, emigration, naturalization, and loss of citizenship among individuals and groups, including Jews, Muslims, Germans, and other minority populations. Lohr explores how reform of citizenship laws in the 1860s encouraged foreigners to immigrate and conduct business in Russia. For the next half century, citizenship policy was driven by attempts to modernize Russia through intensifying its interaction with the outside world. But growing suspicion toward non-Russian minorities, particularly Jews, led to a reversal of this openness during the First World War and to a Soviet regime that deprived whole categories of inhabitants of their citizenship rights.

Lohr sees these Soviet policies as dramatically divergent from longstanding Russian traditions and suggests that in order to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today—including how to manage an influx of Chinese laborers in Siberia—we must return to pre-Stalin history.

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Eric Lohr is Susan E. Lehrman Chair of Russian History and Culture at American University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE. Boundaries and Migration before 1860 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
TWO. Annexation and Naturalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
THREE. Immigration and Naturalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
FOUR. Emigration and Denaturalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
FIVE. Citizenship in War and Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
SIX. Soviet Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Statute on Soviet Citizenship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Archival Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Audience: Academics, Students, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Main content: 288
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- Other: 9 tables

eBook

Published: October 31, 2012
ISBN: 9780674067806