The Post-War Space of Siberia and the Urals in the Perception of the American Journalist F. A. MacKenzie
https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2022.81.6.020
Abstract
The article is devoted to the history of visits which was made by a Canadian-American correspondent F. A. MacKenzie to Ural in Siberia in the first half of 1920s. At that time these provinces were in the process of resurrection to normalcy after the Civil War. In the early years of peace, foreign correspondents were free to move around the country, although journalists’ articles were checked by the Soviet censorship. MacKenzie’s articles were no exception, although he, like other foreign correspondents, attempted to evade censorship. His articles which were published in 1922–1924 depicted a controversial condition of people at the Urals and Siberia. Despite his criticism of Soviet policy and description of daily public life as depression, MacKenzie praised the positive aspects of Bolshevik rule in the economic sphere. McKenzie’s main focus in articles was City of Omsk, which remained the economic capital of Siberia in the first half of the 1920s. Novonikolaevsk, which has become from 1926 Novosibirsk, could hardly be perceived him as the real capital of Siberia. McKenzie noted a significant improvement in railroad transport traffic, but the whole conditions of the main cities of the Urals and Siberia were appreciated him as unsatisfactory and poor.
About the Author
D. M. Nechiporuk
Tyumen State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nechiporuk Dmitry Mikhailovich - Ph.D. (Historical Sciences), Senior Researcher at the Laboratory for the Inter-disciplinary Study of Space
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Review
For citations:
Nechiporuk D.M. The Post-War Space of Siberia and the Urals in the Perception of the American Journalist F. A. MacKenzie. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2022;(6 (81)):192-200. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2022.81.6.020
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