Laperdin Vyacheslav B.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Social Stratification in Collective Farms of West Siberian Region in the 1930s
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2020-3-19
The paper objective is to introduce into scientific use the report of B. Mayberg who was the chief of “politotdel” (political department) of Topkinsky MTS. Its content is important for understanding social processes in the Soviet village in the 1930s. Publication is preceded by an introductory article, which gives a brief description of the historiography of the problem of professional and material differentiation of collective farm society. The author of the political report reveals a number of important issues of interest to modern researchers. In particular, he establishes a direct relationship between the property status of peasants in the pre-collective farm village and their status after collectivization. According to his conclusion, most of the collective farmers – coming from the poor – could not successfully adapt to the new conditions. As before collectivization, they remained outsiders, being involved in collective farms with low-paid auxiliary work. Representatives of the middle-class peasants who had economic authority received more advantageous posts. Meanwhile, B. Mayberg also noted the opposite trend: representatives of the poor in several collective farms held leadership positions. Thus, we can conclude that we are talking, rather, not about one main trend, but about various options for social differentiation, in each case (region or collective farm) taking various forms.
Publishing: 29/06/2020
How to cite: Laperdin V.B. Social Stratification in Collective Farms of West Siberian Region in the 1930s // Historical Courier, 2020, No. 3 (11), pp. 198–211. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2020/ISTKURIER-2020-3-19.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2020
Keywords: state agrarian policy; peasantry; collective farms; Siberia