Natalya Anatolyevna Potapova,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
State Regulation of Otkhodnichestvo in the 1920s (On the Materials of Siberia)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-1-14
The article, based on the materials of the Siberian region, examines the phenomenon of otkhodnichestvo that existed in pre-revolutionary Russia and revived under the Bolshevik rule in the early 1920s. This process was generated by the desire of the pea-sants to earn extra money outside the places of permanent residence, was temporary, most often seasonal, after which the population returned home for agricultural work. During the period of the empire, such a process most often had an unorganized character, although the government tried to control seasonal industries, but it did not succeed in doing this in full. The Soviet leadership, starting from the second half of 1921, is gradually trying to resolve this problem by establishing state control over unregulated waste. The study clarifies the methods of control over otkhodniks, the results of the attempts made, as well as the scale of otkhodnichestvo in the whole country and in Siberia.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 01.12.2022
How to cite: Potapova N.A. State Regulation of Otkhodnichestvo in the 1920s (On the Materials of Siberia) // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 1 (27), pp. 178–185. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-1-14.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2023
Keywords: otkhodnichestvo; trade migrations; peasants; unemployment; People’s Commissariat of Labour; state regulation