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EASTERN PEOPLE ON WESTERN PRAIRIES... Alberta. In large part, this success was a result of perspective — while many such immigrants remained mostly poor, they were noticeably better off than they had been under the Russian government, and as such, saw no reason to fully merge with the existing Anglo-Canadian ideals, particularly those about improving ones station with education and skills training. Over time, the two distinct cultural groups blended; we no longer have distinct Russian, German, or Ukrainian farming communities within Alberta (though there are still communities with strong heritages of such). However, it was not a case of pure assimilation, but rather a mutual development of a unigue rural Albertan culture which continues to show elements of these initial cultural values and beliefs. Such results suggest that it may perhaps be worth revisiting an examination of revolutions and their effects on global society. Certainly, scholars may find that many cultural processes did not develop in isolation, but are rather the result of a continuously developing global situation. Such an understanding could drastically affect how politicians and others in the modern day choose to address current and future crises, and enable them to make decisions which most benefit those impacted by revolutionary processes. BIBLIOGRAPHY ---, Census of Canada, 1921, Statistics Canada, 1921. ---, Census of the Prairie Provinces, Census and Statistics Office, 1916. ---, Census Profile, 2016 Census, Statistics Canada, 2017. ---, Educational Profile of Canada, 2006 Census, Statistics Canada, 2008. ---, Instruction to Commissioners and Enumerators, Census and Statistics Office, 1916. Boyp, Monica — VickERrs, Michael, 100 Years of Immigration in Canada, Canadian Social Trends, Vol. 11, No. 8 (Autumn 2000), 2-13. Domak, Evsey D. — Macuina, MarkJ., On the Profitability of Russian Serfdom, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec. 1984), 919-955. GOGOL, Nikolai, Dead Souls, trans. D. J. Hogarth. Standard ebooks edition, 2017. HARCAVE, Sidney, The Russian Revolution, London, Collier Books, 1970. INKSTER, lan, Lessons of the Past? Technology Transfer and Russian Industrialization in Comparative Perspective, Science, Technology & Society, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1998), 307-333. KotTsonis, Yanni, Arkhangel’sk, 1918: Regionalism and Populism in the Russian Civil War, The Russian Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Oct. 1992), 526-544. MANCUSO, Rebecca, For Purity or Prosperity: Competing Nationalist Visions and Canadian Immigration Policy, 1919-1930, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2010), 1-23.
