CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Gabbas, Marco |
|---|---|
| Title | Udmurt Soil Upturned: Collectivisation in Soviet Udmurtia at the Turn of the 1930s |
| Summary | The subject of this thesis is the collectivisation of agriculture in Soviet Udmurtia at the turn of the 1930s. Situated in the Urals, Udmurtia was an autonomous region, largely agricultural, and with a developing industrial center, Izhevsk, as capital. The titular nationality of the region, the Udmurts, represented slightly more than 50% of the total inhabitants, while the rest was made up by Russians and other national minorities. Udmurts were mostly peasants and concentrated in the countryside, whereas city-dwellers and factory workers were mostly Russians. Due to these and other circumstances, collectivisation in Udmurtia was carried out in a very specific way. The campaign began here in 1928, one year before than in the rest of the Union, and had possibly the highest pace in the country, with 76% of collectivised farms by 1933. The years 1928-1931 were the highest point of the campaign, when the most opposition and the most violence took place. The local Party Committee put before itself the special task to carry out a revolutionary collectivisation campaign in the Udmurt countryside, which should have been a definitive solution to its “national” backwardness and to all its problems, from illiteracy to trachoma, from syphilis to the stripe system. The Party Committee failed to exert much support from the peasant Udmurt masses, which stayed at best inert to collectivisation propaganda, or opposed it openly. However, the back of the Udmurt peasantry was finally broken, and Udmurtia was totally collectivised by the end of the 1930s. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Shaw, Charles |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/gabbas_marco.pdf |
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