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The migration of Ukrainian peasantry to the Kirgiz Steppe (present-day northern Kazakhstan) before 1917 was part of what Donald Tread-gold called ‘the Great Siberian Migration’.1 This movement, begun spontaneously after the abolition of serfdom, gained strength with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and peaked with government support during the Stolypin Land Reform. In its last two phases, between 1894 and 1914, some five million people crossed the Urals to the east. Among them were over two million people, mainly peasants, from Ukraine.2
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2. I. Stebelsky, ‘Ukrainian Peasant Colonisation East of the Urals, 1896–1914’, Soviet Geography, 25, 9 (1984), p. 683; also see I. Stebelsky, ‘Ukrainian Migration to Siberia before 1917: The Process and Problems of Losses and Survival Rates’ in Bohdan Krawchenko (ed.), Ukrainian Past, Ukrainian Present: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990 (Bassingstoke, 1993), p. 55.
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19. A. S. Bezhkovich, ‘Ukraintsy-pereselentsy yuzhonoi chasti Semipalatinskoi gubernii’, Ukrainsty-pereselentsy Semipalatinskoi gubernii. Materialy komissii ekspeditsionnykh issledovanii 16 (Leningrad, 1930), p. 10.
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Stebelsky, I. (1998). Ukrainian Settlement Patterns in the Kirgiz Steppe Before 1917: Ukrainian Colonies or Russian Integration?. In: Pallot, J. (eds) Transforming Peasants. International Council for Central and East European Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26526-8_8
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