Features of Development of the Black Sea Village in 1920s: Materials from the Black Sea Party Obkom Fond in the Documentation Center for Contemporary History of the Krasnodar Krai

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DOI 10.28995/2073-0101-2018-4-1128-1136

Olga V. Bershadskaya

Krasnodar Branch of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Krasnodar, Russian Federation

Features of Development of the Black Sea Village in 1920s: Materials from the Black Sea Party Obkom Fond in the Documentation Center for Contemporary History of the Krasnodar Krai

Abstract

The article studies features of socio-economic and socio-political development of the Black Sea village in 1920s. Documents from the fond of the Black Sea District Committee (Obkom) of the RCP (b) -VKP (b) stored in the Center for Documentation of the Modern History of the Krasnodar Krai allow not only to reconstruct the developments in the Black Sea village in the NEP days, but also to understand the nature of its evolution. Uniqueness of the Black Sea village was greatly determined by its geographical environment. There had formed a sectoral makeup of agricultural production: fruit-farming, viticulture, tobacco growing. Rugged relief forced peasants to form holdings or farms; therefore rural communities were rare. Its another distinctive feature was its motley national composition. Over 50 ethnic groups inhabited the district, among most numerous were the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Armenians, and the Greeks. In the first years of the NEP, the main tasks facing district authorities were to develop ‘high-intensity’ industries and to shape local peasant farms into food base for cities and resorts. While tackling these tasks, they had to deal with shortages of land and poor communications and to bring lease relations and work-hands employment up to scratch. The situation was complicated by socio-political inertia of rural population of the district that came from the absence of community tradition. Study of the documents from the fond of the Black Sea party obkom shows that local authorities were well aware of the peculiarity of their region, but in most cases had to follow guidelines set ‘from above’ to introduce all-Russian standards.

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Keywords

Archival documents, sources, New Economic Policy (NEP), Black Sea village, 1920s, peasant farms, land management, lease relations, taxation, social and political activity.

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Bershadskaya Olga Vladislavavna, PhD in History, Krasnodar Branch of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, associate professor, 8-961-516-99-17, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Submitted 3.02.2018, published:

BERSHADSKAYA, O. V. Osobennosti razvitiya chernomorskoi derevni v 1920-e gg. Po materialam fonda Chernomorskogo okruzhnogo komiteta partii Tsentra dokumentatsii noveishei istorii Krasnodarskogo kraya [Features of Development of the Black Sea Village in 1920s: Materials from the Black Sea Party Obkom Fond in the Documentation Center for Contemporary History of the Krasnodar Krai. In Russ.]. IN: Vestnik arhivista / Herald of an Archivist, 2018, no. 4, pp. 1128-1136. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2018-4-1128-1136

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