Regulation of Money Circulation in Yenisei Province (January–June 1920)

• Published in: Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts
• Main Author: Dmitry Igorevich Petin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ural Federal University Press 2021
• Subjects: гражданская война; советская власть; финансовая политика; денежное обращение; денежные суррогаты; партизанское движение; енисейская губерния; scipo; hist; Krasnoyarsk Krai; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2021.23.1.012; https://doaj.org/article/e2bfc73442724468b755c508177dbd60

This article considers the understudied aspect of financial history in the final period of the Civil War in Eastern Siberia. The author aims to describe the correlation between the financial and economic activities of the partisans and the Yenisei Provincial Revolutionary Committee during the restoration of Soviet power and their policies. With the help of a comparison between the forms of financial policies of the rebels and the Soviet government, the comparative-historical and problem-chronological methods make it possible to track the dynamics in the economic sphere of the region. The author demonstrates the connection of the issue considered in the article and the general historiography of the situation with the circulation of money in Siberia during the Civil War. The research is based on office records from the Soviet period as well as unpublished documents (orders, minute books, correspondence) of revolutionary committees of Yenisei Region which are first introduced into scholarly circulation (from the funds of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of the Economy, the State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the State Archives of Novosibirsk and Tomsk Regions, and the Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local History). Having examined the monetary activities of the partisans and the Soviet authorities in Yenisei Province, the author concludes that in the first half of 1920, the “rebel view” on the regulation of the financial and economic spheres persisted in the region. The experience of the pro-Soviet and Soviet authorities of Yenisei Province is another indication of the fact that during the Civil War, the issue of their own money was the key method for solving financial difficulties for all authorities, regardless of the degree of their legitimacy and political stance.