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Today's historical studies have continued concentrating on the subject of restrictions imposed on rights of certain ethnic minorities. The scientific interest arose already in the early 20th century. The turn of the 19th and 20th centuries witnessed a myth of “German threat” to the Russian statehood emerging during an economic boom in specific regions. The myth gave birth to a number of industrial and agricultural restrictions. Russia's entering the World War I demanded that the government formulated its posit...

The 19-20th century period witnessed active migrations between populations in many countries. Internal migrations were determined by specific political, economic, social and cultural development of the states. Those were particularly active in multinational empires. Migration specificity in the Russian Empire was that they had both compulsory and voluntary nature. They directly affected the ethnic composition of regions. This article will focus on the correlation between voluntary and compulsory migrations in the ...