INDUSTRIAL ENTERPISE IN A FOCUS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPECTATIONS OF MIGRANTS FROM BELARUS (BASED ON TIMBER INDUSTRY OF REPUBLIC OF KARELIA DURING THE PERIOD OF 1944-2014)

Abstract

The main purpose of the study became the analysis of the role of a timber industry enterprise as the main subject of social and economic expectations of migrants from Belarus in Karelia during the second half of XX – beginning of XXI century.Methodology. The base of methodology became elements of micro-institutional analysis of industrial enterprise, which represented in papers of G.B. Kleiner.Results. By analyzing of archival documents and scientific literature shows, that a combination of natural, economic, social and demographic conditions of the region promoted transformation of timber enterprises often into the only actor of creation and maintaining of social and living environment for both local and newcomer population, whose past, present and future was put in direct dependence on the success of the timber industry. The analysis allows to conclude, that by the end of the Soviet period, different directions of social and economic expectations of society and the state led to the fact that the level of social development and material welfare of the population of Karelia, which accounted for a significant portion of immigrants from Belarus, did not comply with its contribution to the national economy. Mass closure of the timber industry enterprises during the 1990s – 2000s by now transformed the former forest settlements in marginal habitats, consisting of the population is doomed to extinction.Practical implications. The conclusions allow not only to form problematic vision at the socio-economic history of Karelia, but also contribute to the expansion of knowledge about the history of the Belarusian diaspora in Karelia.

Keywords

• timber enterprise
• social and economic expectations
• Belarusians
• Karelia
• 1944-2014