Title Russian citizenship : from empire to Soviet Union / Eric Lohr

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages) Contents Boundaries and migration before 1860 -- Annexation and naturalization -- Immigration and naturalization -- Emigration and denaturalization -- Citizenship in war and revolution -- Soviet citizenship -- Tables -- The statute on Soviet citizenship -- Archival sources Summary In the first book to trace the Russian state's citizenship policy throughout its history, Lohr argues that to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today, we must return to the less xenophobic and isolationist pre-Stalin period--before the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off from Europe Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state's citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin's power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted among its citizens and whom it took pains to exclude. His research reveals that the Russian attitude toward citizenship was less xenophobic and isolationist and more similar to European attitudes than has been previously thought--until the drive toward autarky after 1914 eventually sealed the state off and set it apart. Drawing on untapped sources in the Russian police and foreign affairs archives, Lohr's research is grounded in case studies of immigration, emigration, naturalization, and loss of citizenship among individuals and groups, including Jews, Muslims, Germans, and other minority populations. Lohr explores how reform of citizenship laws in the 1860s encouraged foreigners to immigrate and conduct business in Russia. For the next half century, citizenship policy was driven by attempts to modernize Russia through intensifying its interaction with the outside world. But growing suspicion toward non-Russian minorities, particularly Jews, led to a reversal of this openness during the First World War and to a Soviet regime that deprived whole categories of inhabitants of their citizenship rights. Lohr sees these Soviet policies as dramatically divergent from longstanding Russian traditions and suggests that in order to understand the citizenship dilemmas Russia faces today--including how to manage an influx of Chinese laborers in Siberia--we must return to pre-Stalin history Analysis Multi-User Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-268) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Citizenship -- Russia -- History Citizenship -- Soviet Union -- History Naturalization -- Russia -- History Naturalization -- Soviet Union -- History Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Russia -- History Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Soviet Union -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship. Citizenship Emigration and immigration Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. Naturalization SUBJECT Russia -- Emigration and immigration -- History Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration -- History Subject Russia Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012008910 ISBN 0674067800 9780674067806 0674071190 9780674071193

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