№3-2020-02
Bershadskaia S.V.
PHYSICAL DISTANCING AND OTHER MEASURES: “KRASNOYARSK WORKER”
ON HEALTH CHALLENGES OF NEP SIBERIANS
Using publications of a Siberian periodical the Krasnoyarsk Worker (Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy), the paper attempts to analytically reconstruct the daily practices of Siberian townspeople. Based on the notion of daily life the paper investigates government measures and “movements from below” to prevent the spread of infections and to improve health of ordinary people. Firstly, the author has examined the episodes in the history of the Krasnoyarsk Worker that illustrate the newspaper’s engagement in public polemics surrounding health challenges. Secondly, the author has shown how public debate sought to reframe daily practices of Siberian townspeople within accepted structures of daily life while so reconciling habitual practices and government efforts, and, thirdly placed them within the broader context of the societal challenges. To that end, the author has drawn on evidence found in the Krasnoyarsk Worker. The findings of the paper seek to contribute to a more complete understanding of the processes at work during 1920s from the regional perspective of Siberia and analyze the events at the grassroots level of Soviet society. A mixture of chronological and thematic approach has been adopted.
Keywords: daily life, Siberia, Yenissei province, townspeople, daily habits, health challenges, printed mass media, 1920s.
Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Krasnoyarsk (Russia)
