Russian citizenship. From the Empire to the Soviet Union

The monograph traces the history of the Institute of Citizenship in Russia from the great reforms of the 1860s until the early 1930s. The author considers Russian laws and practices in an international context and concludes that before the outbreak of World War I, the history of Russian citizenship is largely comparable to the history of citizenship in Western countries. In the 1860s, the government tried to increase the influx of foreigners into the country, which was considered as part of the modernization strategy. At the same time, the tsarist regime used a policy of citizenship as an instrument of influence on the ethnic composition of the population. The scientist shows how in 1914 in the history of Russian citizenship a turn to Autarchy begins, which the isolationism and xenophobia of the Stalin era have become the culmination