The Industrial Development of Kalmykia in 1920s-1930s: Specifics and Outcomes
Abstract
The present study considers the rapid industrial development in Kalmykia in the framework of the socioeconomic policy of the Soviet state aimed at leveling its regions economic expansion. Due to some historical, geographical, economic reasons the process of industrialization in Kalmykia and its working class formation during this period as well as their further development were characterized by some specific national traits and distinctive features which largely determined the success and failure in the implementation of major national objectives. The industrialization conducted primarily at the expense of agriculture and the forced collectivization of the peasantry demanded incredible efforts of all the population in the region causing a huge number of human casualties, breaking the centuries-old way of life, changing nomadic mentality in this ethnic outskirt of the Soviet Russia.
About the Author
E. Badmaeva
Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. of History, Associate Professor, Deputy Director on Scientific Work
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Badmaeva E. The Industrial Development of Kalmykia in 1920s-1930s: Specifics and Outcomes. Oriental Studies. 2014;7(3):23-29. (In Russ.)
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