ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

DOI 10.23671/VNC.2018.66.11462

The problems of social economic development of the North Ossetia during the so-called late Stalin period are among the most neglected in regional historiography. In this regard, the comrehensive study of the main areas of rehabilitation of the industrial and agricultural sector of the North Ossetian ASSR seems to be specially relevant. A compilation of the documents of the Cenral state archive of RNO-A is devoted to the consideration of violations of the Agricultural artel Charter. The documents provide opportunities for the readers to assess the extent of the violations of labour and financial discipline in the North Ossetian collective farms and the ways they were handled with by party and state bodies in the first post-war years. Archival documents show that many heads of collective farms disregarded democratic basis in managing agricultural artels and the mass theft of collective property flourished. At the same time it should be noted that among violators of the Agricultural artel Charter there were also some leading party members and soviet high-ranking officials of the North Ossetian ASSR. So, for example, manager of agricultural department of the Regional committee of VKP(b) B-ev for 5 years illegally used the collective farm house with the estate of 0,57 hectares with a garden. The former secretary of the Ordzhonikidzevsky district party committee for several years used collective farm houses for the needs of his privately owned cattle and was engaged in dispossessing collective farmers. All these facts testify to the crisis phenomena in the Stalin model of agrarian development in 1945–1953. According to the country leaders regional party and soviet workers had to be in vanguard of the campaign in fighting against violations of the Agricultural artel Charter started in 1946. They were most often charged with disciplinary responsibility for rejecting measures to eliminate violations of the Charter in collective farms of the area and for their liberal attitudes towards the collective farm property plunderers. Chairmen of Gizeldonsky, Alagir and Costa-Khetagurovsky district executive committees were among the regional leaders removed in 1945–1953 on such grounds.

Keywords: collective farm, elimination, violations, agricultural artel, Council of Ministers, Charter.

References:

1. Gosudarstvennyj arkhiv noveishej istorii Respubliki Severnaja Osetija-Alanija [State Archive of Modern History of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania]. Fund-R.1. Inventory 5. Case 25.