LAND LEASE DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN NORTH OF RUSSIA IN THE 1920s

• Published in: University proceedings. Volga region. Humanities
• Main Author: V. A. Sablin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Penza State University Publishing House 2020
• Subjects: types of peasant production; lease relations; economic zones; nature of land lease; forms of lease; History (General); D1-2009; Arkhangelsk; karelia*; Republic of Karelia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21685/2072-3024-2020-4-5; https://doaj.org/article/d5c06a6184d34ca38b70992a0c11f3e3

Background. The relevance of the study of various aspects of the development of land lease in the Russian village in the 1920s is determined by the need to obtain new knowledge about the nature of the new economic policy, as well as to study, in a wider context, the potential possibilities of parcel peasant farming in rental and economic spheres after an equal distribution of the main means of production – the land. The purpose of the study is to analyze the main factors in the development of rental relations in the village of the non-chernozem zone of Russia and to elucidate the potential for commercializing the agricultural sector under Soviet conditions during the period of the new economic policy. Materials and methods. The validity of the research results is provided by introducing new historical sources into scientific circulation, presented by reporting and analytical documentation on the provinces of the European North of Russia in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, in the State Archive of Arkhangelsk region and the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia. The analysis is based on the materials of the budget statistics of the peasant economy. This type of source contains the most complete information about peasants’ farms and their families and gives an opportunity to study the content of the social, demographic and production aspects of their life. Budgetary information can reveal the evolution of the yield of the peasant household on the basis of the detailed information containing in them about all branches of the economic activity of peasants and interrelations of the basic elements of the economy. When necessary, the author supplemented his analysis with mass statistical material. The methodological dominant of the study was the epistemological provisions of the Russian agrarian science of the late 19th–20th centuries, in particular, the theories of the family organization of peasant farming, which were formulated within the organizational and production vector of research. The author ...