Evgeniya Andreevna Ignat’eva,
Novosibirsk State University; Postgraduate Student, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Activity in the Mobilization Regime: Agents of Power in the Siberian Village in 1929–1930
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-1-8
The research deals with questions of the activity of agents of power in the Siberian Village in 1929–1930, the most intensive period the compaign of “total collectivization”. The paper is based on archival documents of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Executive Committee in the Siberian region (krai) and Novosibirsk region (okrug), West-Siberian regional court, Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, OGPU authorized representative in the Siberian region (krai) and West-Siberian region (krai). It is established that activities of the agents of power were mobilization and extremely resource-intensive. The author studies the consequences of their activities in the Siberian Village for themselves and for the system they were a part of. It is shown that the reasons of the problems the agents of power faced in the Village were extremely inflated plans for the “socialist reconstruction” of the Village, inefficiency and inflexibility of the system, high level of social tension in the Village, everyday problems, incompetence, unpreparedness of agents of power to work in the Village and their specific personal transformations. The methods and techniques of the Bolsheviks of correcting the current situation are analyzed among which are small concessions while maintaining the “general line”, liquidation of the “self-discrediting” agents of power and sending new contingents of the agents to the Village. The conclusion is made about the low efficiency of the grassroots management system, the extreme resource consumption and the rapid exhaustion of this resource.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 17.11.2022
How to cite: Ignat’eva E.A. Activity in the Mobilization Regime: Agents of Power in the Siberian Village in 1929–1930 // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 1 (27), pp. 105–115. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-1-08.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2023
Keywords: USSR; Siberia; “total collectivization”; agents of power; mobilization; social conflict