Policy of Collectivization and Peasant Resistance (Based on Materials of Kozlovsky District of Central Chernozem Region)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of socio-political development of villages of Kozlovsky district of the Central Chernozem region in 1929-1930. The main sources of the study were extensive materials concentrated in the State Archive of Socio-Political History of the Tambov Region and the State Archive of the Tambov Region. It is shown that these documents made it possible to study at the micro level the problems of increasing antagonism between the Soviet power and peasantry, the progressive expansion of the tools of struggle of each of the opposing forces on the local example of the peasantry of the Kozlovsky district. The article pays special attention to the social appearance of the protest movement. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of identifying the problems of conflict-free resolution of socio-political protests. On the contrary, repressive measures of the Soviet government against Kozlovsky district peasants turned to the growing dissent, mass demonstrations, etc. It is indicated that the government, in pursuit of clearly defined political and economic objectives, continued to use the push methods in the fight on the bread front, and during the complete collectivization. A comprehensive social and institutional assessment of the events in the Soviet village in 1929-1930 is carried out. The researchers prove that collectivization has become a mechanism for suppressing the protest forces in a village and strengthening the positions of Soviet power.

Keywords

• «великий перелом»
• collectivization
• grain procurements
• “great turning point”
• peasantry
• village