Ovcharova Maria A.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Novosibirsk State Museum of local history, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Agricultural Migrations of the late 1920s –1940s to Western Siberia: Causes, Conditions, Resettlement
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-4-4
Siberian region in the late 1920s was an actively developing area. The state during this period played a decisive role in the gradual development of new territories. The state was forced to solve important strategic problems associated with the huge movements of people from different regions of the vast country. The displacement vectors were related to the needs of settling a territory, adapting to it, and the need to free space in the other territory. For this purpose, there was a certain model of development of a new territory, a plan was developed. The state policy was designed for several years. Since the spontaneous movement of immigrants to Western Siberia from the overpopulated areas of the European part in the early 1920s, was not controlled by the government. It was decided to use it for the sake of proper development of the region. And in this one can distinguish the end of the 1920s, when the state deployed control over the settlers and tried to direct flows to the desired areas, and the end of the 1930s –early 1940s, when certain areas were settled and a program of resettlement was developed. So, it should be noted that the resettlement of the late 1920s was made in an emergency mode, because it more often began from the starving Volga regions. The state in this situation only strategically tried to direct these hungry streams to development of new lands. In the second stage, at the end of 1930s it was a more informed process. Despite certain shortcomings of the policy of planned state resettlement, it literally gave large-scale results over decades. First, there was a huge shuffle of human resources. Secondly, the development of land and natural resources began, which gave additional income. Thirdly, a lot of new settlements were built in a short period of time. It was in the second half of the 1920s – 1930s – the period when in Siberia new villages, towns, farms, homestead, etc. appeared, that the Eastern territory of the state was mastered and protected.
Publishing: 30/08/2019
How to cite: Ovcharova M.A. Agricultural Migrations of the late 1920s –1940s to Western Siberia: Causes, Conditions, Resettlement // Historical Courier, 2019, # 4 (6). Article 4. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-4-04.pdf
Links: Issue 4 2019
Keywords: agrarian resettlement policy of the late 1920s –1940s; voluntary-planned resettlement movement in Western Siberia