The State-Administrative Factor of the Genesis of Ethnic Identity: Nagaybaks Episode of the XVIII — early XX century
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.90.3.001
Abstract
A brief analysis of the ethnic map of the Middle Volga region and the Urals, formed by the beginning of the XX century, is given. Attention is drawn to the emergence of new identities and their future destinies. Among others, today the Nagaybaks have preserved and broadcast the original ethnic identity to the greatest extent, so this group is a convenient material for studying such processes. Assessment of the degree of participation of the state (military-administrative) apparatus in the process of forming new identities in the Volga-Ural region. The corpus of sources is represented by published documents of the XVIII–XX centuries under the authorship of P. I. Rychkov, I. G. Georgi, M. A. Krukovsky, etc., as well as materials of the population censuses of 1926, 2002, 2010 and 2020. The emergence of new identities in the region is associated with the migration processes that intensified after 1552 — spontaneous national and state colonization. The task of the latter was the social construction of new territories. The result of Christianization were new identities: Kryashens, Eastern Mari, Zakamskiy Udmurts, unbaptized Chuvash, Muslim Chuvash. In the process of estate construction, Teptyars, Meshcheryaks and Nagaybaks appeared, settled according to the administrative division of the Cossack troops. These three groups were singled out as separate identities in 1897 and 1926. Of these, only the Nagaybaks in their history were subjected to state influence three times: Christianization, conversion to the Cossacks and unification as part of the Nagaybak district. These events laid the foundation of the Nagaybak identity with three reference points — confessional, class and ethnic.
About the Author
I. R. Atnagulov
Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Atnagulov Irek Ravilyevich — Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Сenter of Ethnohistory, Institute of History and Archeology
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Atnagulov I.R. The State-Administrative Factor of the Genesis of Ethnic Identity: Nagaybaks Episode of the XVIII — early XX century. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(3(90)):197-204. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.90.3.001
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