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The Fate of Harbin Repatriate in the Mirror of Anthropology: Liudmila Abramova (1914-2002)
- Authors: Krotova M.V.1, Petin D.I.2
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Affiliations:
- St. Petersburg State University of Economics
- Omsk State Technical University
- Issue: Vol 22, No 1 (2023): The Peoples of Russia in the System of Transnational Relations in Siberia, China and Central Asia
- Pages: 110-124
- Section: THE PEOPLES OF RUSSIA IN THE SYSTEM OF TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS IN SIBERIA, CHINA AND CENTRAL ASIA
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/33904
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2023-22-1-110-124
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The research is devoted to repatriate Lyudmila Maksimilianovna Abramova (1914-2002) who was born in Harbin, lived in China for 40 years and moved to the USSR during the mass repatriation of the Russian population of Manchuria in the 1950s. Through the fate of Liudmila Abramova the authors attempt to reflect the peculiarities of the life of the emigrants in Northern Manchuria in the interwar period. They include the involvement of young people in fascist organizations, work in the Manchukuo authorities, survival strategies, repatriation motives, adaptation practices of repatriates, gender aspects - such as the role of a politician's wife, the participation of women in public organizations. The appeal to the personalized history is due to the fact that in the history of Russian emigration in Manchuria there are many mythologemes that distort the idea of the life and activities of emigrants. In addition, the authors had to face the problem of reconstructing the biography of a “little” person in the absence of ego documents (memoirs, letters, diaries); therefore, the research task was the use of the anthropological approach, microand macroanalysis, historical-biographical and historical-comparative methods. The article is based on unpublished archival documents involving memoirs and diaries of former Harbin residents and oral history materials.
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Mariia V. Krotova
St. Petersburg State University of Economics
Author for correspondence.
Email: mary_krot@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7948-0251
Dr. Habil. Hist., Professor of the Department of International Relations, Medialogy, Political Science and History
21, Sadovaya Str., St. Petersburg, 191023, RussiaDmitrii I. Petin
Omsk State Technical University
Email: dimario86@rambler.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1614-8133
PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Communications
11, Prospekt Mira Av., Omsk, 644050, RussiaReferences
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