Social Transformations in Kuzbass Region at After Reform Period

Abstract

The article is devoted to identification and characterization of regional particularities of social transformations of the dependent categories of the population in free rural inhabitants in the post-reform period. The main material is a wide range of sources in the form of legislative acts and statistical materials, as well as works by “pre-revolutionary” (D. A. Ponikarovsky, N. M. Zobnin), and “Soviet” authors (A. P. Borodavkin, A. T. Topchy). The work reconstructs the transition from “compulsory” to “civilian” employment relationship of the factory craftsmen, mining workers and bonded peasants of the Cabinet on the example of Kuznetsk district of Tomsk governorate. It is proved that the mining workers of the Salair region and peasantry of the Cabinet village actually received liberalization and capitalization of labour relations as a result of the 1861 reform. The author argues that in the first half of the 1860-ies in the Cabinet village of Kuzbass region a new socio-production relations were formed, involving the free choice by the population of its economic activities. It is established that the corresponding reform was spread on category of state peasants of Kuzbass region later by the law of 18 January 1866: the unification of the system of local peasant self-government was held.