Theodor Markcity – foreigner or compatriot? (Concerning the question of the social status of the foreigner specialists on Dniprobud)

Ignatusha О.О. Theodor Markcity – foreigner or compatriot? (Concerning the question of the social status of the foreigner specialists on Dniprobud)

  • The author analyzed the life career of Theodor Markcity – the member of the group of American specialists on the Dniprobud, explained his motivation for his arrival to the USSR and his adoption of the soviet citizenship. The social position of Markcity is shown in the close connection with the social and political processes in Ukraine and in the World during the 1-st half of the XX century. The author shows dependence of the fate of the foreign specialists on the level of introduction of the Bolsheviks plans of the industrialization and the change of the political priority of the state.
  • Theodor Markcity, life, citizenship, political priorities
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