Plural: History, Culture, Society (Jun 2019)
Сoветская политика организованной миграции. Пример Молдавской ССР. часть II: 1956-1967 гг.
Abstract
In the period under research, the geography of the activity of the Main Directorate for resettlement and selecting organized labor of the Moldavian SSR was radically reduced, mostly to the geographical borders of Kazakhstan. Outside of those selected for organized labor, different categories of the population migrated towards Kazakhstan in particular the youth and skilled workers. The majority of those sent were brought to Kazakhstan by passenger trains, which reached the destination in 6-7 days. Some migrants were put on freight trains. In the second half of the 1950s, and, in particular, during the 1960s, the fulfilment of plans on the selection and resettlement was secured with increasingly considerable efforts. The causes for this were both the growing requirements towards the quality of the workers, deployed in Kazakhstan, and the gradual improvement of the economic situation in Moldova. This required the leadership of the Directorate to seek new arguments for justifying the failures in the execution of the approved plans, with these failures becoming more frequent. Their own requirements for the selection of cadres, which became more drastic, as well as the constant change of the rules for the receipt of the workers were submitted to the Directorate for resettlement and selecting the organized labor of the Moldavian SSR by the highest leadership of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and other soviet republics. The fulfilment of these requests became gradually more difficult, because the number of officials working in the Directorate was reduced considerably. Moreover, some republics ceased to pay to Soviet Moldavia the amounts necessary for the successful resettlement of workers. This factor could also disrupt this process. The leadership of the Directorate was faced with several problems, mainly due to the passive or even hostile attitude of the collective farms and enterprises from Moldova, which had a severe shortage of workers. Due to all these reasons, the selection of cadres and workers for the other republics became an increasingly complicated problem in Moldova, starting from the mid-1960s. Conditions emerged for changing attitudes towards the selection of staff, strategic planning and the adequate calculation of the workforce available for resettlement. A more thorough analysis of the long-term perspectives of the process of relocation was conducted. Therefore, according to the Government Decision no. 71, issued on 25 February 1967, the Directorate for the resettlement and selecting organized labor of the Molavian SSR was transformed into the State Committee for resources and labor. The new Committee was led by the party official A. Barcari. This reorganization begins a new stage in the history of the state structures responsible for organized resettlement in Moldova.
