Razumova, I. A. ON THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL BOUNDARIES: POWER IN THE MEMORIES OF FORCED LABORERS. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(2):106–114. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.591


Ethnology, anthropology and ethnography

ON THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL BOUNDARIES: POWER IN THE MEMORIES OF FORCED LABORERS

Razumova
I. A. 		Barents Centre of the Humanities – the Branch of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy Sciences”
Keywords:
power
authorities
special settlers
social dynamics
frontier
Kola Peninsula		 Summary: The purpose of the article is to determine to what extent and under the influence of what factors the borders between the workers-special settlers deported to the Kola Peninsula and the institutionalized government as their antagonist are subject to situational and retrospective-historical dynamics. The sources are memories of special settlers. The methodological basis is the theories of identification, social figuration and social memory. The concept of frontier is applicable to the characteristics of this territory and the socio-political processes of the period of its modernization. Factors of the dynamics of the relationship to the “authorities” are its structural differentiation, identification of “power” and “superiors” forced laborers, the distinction of functional contacts with the implementing authorities at various stages of resettlement, evaluation of the results of the activities of Soviet power in the country and evaluation of the quality of life of the diarist at the moment, ethnic and other social identifiers of the subject of discourse. The configurations of relations between the authorities and the supervised persons consisted of routine interactions and cases-events when the life and health of the displaced persons depended on the personal choice and behavior of the authorities. The social-status scale of relations is adjusted by traditional ethical views. The specifics of the power structure in the conditions of the frontier, the high popular reputation of individual local authorities, the reduction of social distance, the coordination of goals and values in the process of work on the arrangement of a new territory, interpersonal mutual assistance contributed to a balance in the relations between the authorities and the subordinate forced workers.



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