Provisions situation in the Tambov Governorate in the early 1918
https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2021-26-192-209-215
Abstract
We examine the provisions situation in the early 1918 in the producing regions of Russia using materials from the Tambov Governorate. Published documents indicate a strong rise in prices for consumer goods, the population was concerned about high prices for food. The provisions problem was clearly taking on political overtones. The Bolsheviks who came to power did not only impose power, proceeding from their political and economic preferences, starting socialist transformations and fighting the remnants of the old organs of power. All this is shown in published sources on the peasant movement that swept the province, as well as in memoirs, witnesses of all those problems associated with food and the deterioration of the political and economic situation in the city and the governorate as a whole. In particular, the Soviet power immediately faced huge provisions problems, both inherited and generated by their own requisitions, as well as with the peasant protest movement. The peasant movement itself, caused by hunger and chaos, in the future will play a huge role in the policies pursued by the Bolsheviks. Documents and memoirs can serve in the study of the state of the population in the specified period.
About the Author
N. V. Averin
Derzhavin Tambov State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikita V. Averin, Post-Graduate Student, General and Russian History Department
33 Internatsionalnaya St., Tambov 392000
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Averin N.V. Provisions situation in the Tambov Governorate in the early 1918. Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities. 2021;26(192):209-215. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2021-26-192-209-215
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