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Ethnic Processes in the South and East of the Malorossia and Their State Regulation in the Russian Empire (19th – Early of the 20th Centuries)
Purpose: The article is devoted to the establishing trends in the development of ethnic processes in the South and East of the Malorossia (1795–1904) in the context of state ethnic policy of the Russian Empire.
Methods: constructivist paradigm in the study of ethnic processes.
Results: Alternative processes of Russian and Ukrainian nation-building developed in the region of South and East of the Malorossia. Rapid population growth due to migration and high birth rates led to the assimilation of a large part of the Ukrainians. This created conditions for the emergence and strengthening of the regional identity of Novorossia on the basis of the Russian language, Orthodoxy, and empire-wide integration, not in contrast to the “Ukrainian” space.
Discussion: Measures of ethnic policy of the Russian Empire in the region (1795–1904) were contradictory and inconsistent. The regional identity of Novorossia as a resource of state policy maintained in the 19th – early of the 20th
centuries insuffi ciently and ineffi ciently, because of traditionalism and authoritarianism of the imperial authorities’ policy.
Positive program of ethnic policy planned, performed and funded is not enough. The Russian authorities did not have the desire and resources to develop education in Russian, Ukrainians encourage relocation to the city, build loyal pro-Russian elites. Consequently it had led to the activation of Ukrainian nationalism under the Revolution and Civil War.
Methods: constructivist paradigm in the study of ethnic processes.
Results: Alternative processes of Russian and Ukrainian nation-building developed in the region of South and East of the Malorossia. Rapid population growth due to migration and high birth rates led to the assimilation of a large part of the Ukrainians. This created conditions for the emergence and strengthening of the regional identity of Novorossia on the basis of the Russian language, Orthodoxy, and empire-wide integration, not in contrast to the “Ukrainian” space.
Discussion: Measures of ethnic policy of the Russian Empire in the region (1795–1904) were contradictory and inconsistent. The regional identity of Novorossia as a resource of state policy maintained in the 19th – early of the 20th
centuries insuffi ciently and ineffi ciently, because of traditionalism and authoritarianism of the imperial authorities’ policy.
Positive program of ethnic policy planned, performed and funded is not enough. The Russian authorities did not have the desire and resources to develop education in Russian, Ukrainians encourage relocation to the city, build loyal pro-Russian elites. Consequently it had led to the activation of Ukrainian nationalism under the Revolution and Civil War.
ethnic processes, state regulation, the South and East of Malorossia, the Russian Empire