All-Russian Census and the Erasure of Identity (1897)

The empire conducts a general population census, which is used as an institutional instrument of colonization for the bureaucratic erasure of Ukrainian identity and the entrenchment of the ideology of great-power chauvinism[1][2].

ID: C0067
Start:  January 1897
End:  December 1897
Version: 1.0
Created: 25 April 2026
Last Modified: 25 April 2026

Actors

ID Name Description
G0009 Russian Empire

Official recording of Ukrainians exclusively as "Little Russians" (a subgroup of the Great Russian tribe) during the first general census, aimed at the bureaucratic destruction of the notion of a separate people[1].

Techniques Used

ID Name Use
T0010 Denial of a Distinct Identity

Official recording of Ukrainians exclusively as "Little Russians" (a subgroup of the Great Russian tribe) during the first general census, aimed at the bureaucratic destruction of the notion of a separate people[1].

T0008 Deprivation of Agency

Use of the population census as an instrument for depriving the Ukrainian nation of the right to independent historical and political existence[2].

Instruments

ID Name Description
S0008 Government

Official recording of Ukrainians exclusively as "Little Russians" (a subgroup of the Great Russian tribe) during the first general census, aimed at the bureaucratic destruction of the notion of a separate people[1].

References