The 1920s Economic Zoning of UkrSSR as a Means of Unification the “People’s Economic” Space
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2020.02.107Keywords:
UkrSSR, RSFSR, USSR, modernization, economic zoning, Soviet power, “people’s economy”Abstract
The purpose of the research is to analyze the forms and methods of Russian Soviet centralization policy in the field of economic zoning and management of industry, the system of subordination of the basic industries of the republican industry.
The research methodology is general scientific and historical approaches and principles. Applied general scientific, special and interdisciplinary research methods, which gave an opportunity to study various documents, to accumulate and systematize empirical material, to analyze statistical data.
The scientific novelty. On the basis of a wide range of published sources and archival materials, the peculiarities of the implementation of the policy of economic regionalization of UkrSSR by the Soviet authorities, the forms and methods of Soviet centralization policy in the field of economics and industrial management, the system of subordination of the basic branches of the republican industry are analyzed.
Conclusions. Productive forces were to be radically updated after the establishment of the communist system of production and distribution. It is found that the GOELRO plan, the first-ever Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development, initiated the practical implementation of this policy. Under this plan, the Soviet regime took into account the interests of only southern Russia and, specifically, the Donbas. The interests of other parts of UkrSSR, especially Right-Bank Ukraine, were ignored, as well as the interests of UkrSSR as a single economic and political organism. The activities of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia and the following creation of the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR demonstrated complete neglect of the interests of UkrSSR as a republic. The economic principle was to become the basis for a new administrative-territorial division according to the three-member formula: region-precinct-district. The administrative boundaries of regions and the state boundaries of the Republics were to be changed in accordance with economic regionalization. The territory of UkrSSR was planned to be divided into two economic districts subordinated to central authorities in Moscow. It is proved that the implementation of economic regionalization with the simultaneous reforming of the industrial management system, except for secondary industries, deprived the UrkSSR of regulatory functions.
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