The policy of collectivization and dispossession in the Ryazan region and the resistance of the peasantry to its implementation

Abstract

In the article, based on wide use of documentary, archival materials, as well as press materials, the policy of collectivization and dispossession in the Ryazan region at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s is considered. It shows the process of developing a policy of collectivization and dispossession in the studied region, methods of their implementation. The author also analyzes in detail the main forms and methods of resistance of the peasantry to the agrarian policy of the state, their dynamics and scale. In conclusion, the results of the collectivization in the Ryazan region by the end of the first five-year period are summarized. The choice of the region was due to the fact that, thanks to its geographical location (proximity to the capital), this region was a test site for socio-economic experiments, which gave the events a special drama, provoked a sharp and rapid response of the peasantry to the changes being carried out. The relevance of the topic is also caused by the weak study in the historical literature of the policy of collectivization in the Ryazan region.

Keywords

• collectivization of the ryazan region
• dispossession of kulaks
• russian countryside
• collective farms
• peasantry
• tax policy in the countryside
• violence
• repression
• peasant resistance