Omsk Industrialist Georgy Yakovlevich Serebryakov in the Conditions of a Civil War

Abstract

The publication is a biographical study dedicated to a prominent representative of the pre-revolutionary Siberian industrial and commercial bourgeoisie, tobacco manufacturer George Yakovlevich Serebryakov. The work illustrates the social adaptation of a person to the conditions of state and political disasters caused by the events of the Revolution and the Civil War in the east of Russia, using the example of the personality of this figure, very famous in the circles of commerce and power. Based on the specifics of the study the theory of social adaptation, as well as the historical and biographical method, became the methodological basis for the preparation of this article and determined its genre. A connection is made between the question presented in the study and the historiography of the problem, with an emphasis on unexplored plots in the biography of the hero of the story, which allows us to confirm the novelty of this publication. To write the article, a complex of historical sources was used, concentrated in the case of G.Ya. Serebryakov as a justice of the peace (from the funds of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region) and criminal case 1920-1921 initiated by the Cheka in relation to our hero (from the archive of the FSB of Russia in the Omsk region). This work is addressed to researchers of social history, the Civil War in Russia, the repressive policies of the Soviet state at an early stage and genealogy-practices.