Evolution of Ecistic space of the Saratov region during the first half of the Soviet period (1917–1960)

Abstract

The article examines the formation features of the demographic and economic space in the Saratov region during the first half of the Soviet period (1917–1960). The spatial and temporal vectors of development and their determining factors are analised. The results show that, in the context of large-scale material, technical, and social changes associated with the revolution, Sovietization, the Civil War, War Communism, the New Economic Polic, the Great Soviet Reforms, and other events, there was an intensive transformation of the economic space in the region. This led to the formation of a modern external contour and a new hierarchized framework for the region that was characteristic of the Soviet period.

Keywords

• urbanization
• systemic structuring of ecistic space
• new economic policy
• german autonomy
• collectivization
• second industrial revolution (industrialization)
• soviet collective farm-state system of rural settlements