Bulgarian Labor Mobility in Komi. Characteristics of the Largest Socialist Project for Employment Abroad Cover Image

Българската трудова мобилност в Коми. Характеристика на най-големия социалистически проект за работа в чужбина
Bulgarian Labor Mobility in Komi. Characteristics of the Largest Socialist Project for Employment Abroad

Author(s): Elena Vodinchar, Marina Petrovna Klyaus
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Economic history, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Nationalism Studies, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Economic development, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: Bulgarians; labor mobility; taiga; Komi; USSR; logging; memory

Summary/Abstract: The text attempts to analyze the Bulgarian cross-border labor mobility in Komi ASSR. In the period 1968 – 1993, dozens of Bulgarian citizens worked in the Bulgarian-Soviet logging enterprises in Komi. Men, women, and families with children became part of the largest project of the Bulgarian Communist Party for work in the Soviet Union, in the taiga of the Komi people. How are the main moments of this contract policy of the USSR and the NRB unfolding, what benefits is Bulgaria accumulating and what problems are faced by the loggers who formed a memory of the work in Komi – all questions to which this article seeks answers and points of view.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 453-473
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Bulgarian