The Organizational Potential Of The Societies Of Agricultural Colonies And Craft Shelters At The Stage Of Formation (On The Example Of Siberia At The End Of The 19th - Beginning Of The 20th Century)

Societies of agricultural colonies and craft shelters have a short (1895 -1917), but unique history in Siberia. For more than 20 years, they created and operated correctional institutions where children and adolescents were kept isolated from adult criminals, and the prison regime was replaced by educational and combined with labor and spiritual and moral influence on the personality of the pupil. The author's analysis focuses on the activities of preparatory commissions that provide organizational and legal measures from the development of constituent documents to the attraction of resources (material and financial resources, organizational abilities of actors) of future companies. The study of such societies has shown that the prosperity of any of them depends on the level of organizational potential, defined as the ability to attract all those organizations and those people who can make a positive contribution to this process. These materials showed that, despite the significance of the social project, its implementation in Siberia was hindered by the lack of support from the population, which did not show active sympathy for teenagers caught in committing offenses and the inertia of the administrative and managerial apparatus. The article verifies the claim of a number of Russian researchers that membership and collection of donations in favor of charitable organizations operating in Siberia were not always voluntary.