Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The article aims to reconstruct aspects of community life in mining settlements on Svalbard in the mid-1930s, with Barentsburg as a centrepiece. Little known multilingual press and archive material has been used to do so, with microhistorical research as a guiding principle, formulated by Carlo Ginzburg (1993: 33): “Any social structure is the result of interaction and of numerous individual strategies, a fabric that can only be reconstituted from close observation”. None of the closely observed sources used in this research have been taken for granted.
Source: Poljarnyj vestnik
DOI: 10.7557/6.8861
Authors: Andrei Rogatchevski, Richard D. Davies
Institutions: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, University of Leeds
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225390001