Khakimov Rashid Sh.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia, е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
How Chelyabinsk Regional Committee of VKP(b) Tried to Dissolve “Kulak” Collective Farm in 1946
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-1-11
The article deals with the history of collective farm “Vperyod” established in the Chelyabinsk region by former “kulaks”. Despite the dictatorship of the party and Soviet institutions, collective farm achieved steady growth of the wealth of its members, and became collective farm-“millionaire”. The farm took measures to reduce its dependence on state MTS, introducing advanced technology and electrifying production. High results in production were achieved on the basis of relations with industrial enterprises, attraction of hired workers and organization of commercial trade. “Vperyod” had become one of the advanced collective farms in the region. Strong connection was established between the party nomenclature and collective farm leadership. Collective farm supplied agricultural products to many leading party and Soviet workers in the region. Assassination in October 1946 of two employees from the city who arrived to work on a collective farm attracted the attention of Chelyabinsk regional committee of the VKP(b). The issue of “Vperyod” was twice the subject of consideration at a meeting of regional committee bureau. Assassination was qualified as “political”. It was decided to dissolve the “kulak collective farm”. The chairman of the collective farm N.E. Lapova was arrested. However, in the end, collective farm was preserved due to the petition of the collective farmers and the fear of violating the general party line to consolidate the collective farmers in a collective farm. The case of “Vperyod” and the experience of managing other “kulak collective farms” was one of the signs of an internal crisis in the collective farm form of management.
Publishing: 28/02/2020
How to cite: Khakimov R.Sh. How Chelyabinsk Regional Committee of VKP(b) Tried to Dissolve “Kulak” Collective Farm in 1946 // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 1 (9), pp. 129–139. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-1-11.pdf
Links: Issue 1 2020
Keywords: agrarian policy of the Soviet state; kulak; collective farm; special settlers; unregulated artel