№ 3 — 2018 — 1

УДК 94(100)“1914-1918”:316.75

 

Alfyorova I. V.

REFUGEES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: PROBLEMS OF ACCOMMODATION(ON THE MATERIALS OF ORYOL PROVINCE)

The article deals with the specific features of accommodation of Russian refugees during the First World War based on the materials of the Orel province. «Ac-commodation» means a change in function that facilitates the coexistence of ac-tors, groups, organizations, communities and their joint actions without erasing their differences and losing their identity.The term seems to be quite representative in terms of the plight experienced by refugees in places of forced settlement when the process of their adaptation to the new conditions reduced the possibility of social conflict including conflicts with the local population but did not eliminate it completely. That was manifest-ed in the political transformations of 1917. The local population mistakenly blamed the problems caused by military realities on thousands of refugees who were in the province. Out of these numerous problems, only such issues as «housing problems», the unfair distribution of material benefits, state aid in the form of refugee rations, lack of workers will be considered.However, the limited range of the considered problems is an illustration of the social tension between the local population and refugees, which eventually became a certain basis for the formation of protest activity.

Keywords: World War I, Orel province, refugees, accommodation, housing issue, rations, social tension.

 

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