From Plough to Factory Furnace: Retracing the Paths of Soviet Urban Migration in Russias Northwest

This project tracks the paths of urban migration in the late Soviet period. It takes as its object of study the partial destruction of the Russian village during the Khrushchev administration, a result of the efforts to consolidate and transfer urban ways of life to rural settlements at this period. Drawing on extensive Oral History work with residents of towns in the Russian Northwest (Novgorod and Pskov), the project intends to archive a history of the processes of mass displacement, social and cultural transformation that marked this demographic revolution. The voices recorded during the project will be archived as an academic resource as well as being reproduced in a form of oral history theatre to be performed in Russia and the UK. 

 

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• Victoria Donovan
• Anna Lordan
• Dr. Dmitrii Nechiporuk
• Dr. Svetlana Podrezova