ISHIMSKY DISTRICT IN TERRITORIAL DISPUTES OF THE URALS AND SIBERIA OF THE EARLY 1920
M.S. Kyrchikov
Ural Federal University, 19, Mira str., Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation
Keywords: Ишимский округ, Уральская область, Сибирь, районирование, Россия, Госплан, региональная политика, территориальные споры, Ishim district, Ural region, Siberia, regionalization, Russia, Gosplan, regional policy, territorial disputes
Abstract
The article objective is to determine the content and direction of the USSR’s regional policy towards the Urals and Siberia during the early 1920s by the example of Ishim district (uezd) in the light of the regionalization processes of the state administrative and territorial structure. It assesses possibilities of the two competing regions to provide conditions for the territory development and population support. The paper’s main conclusions explain the reasons for preserving the district in the Urals region and its further place in the territorial structure of Russia. The work was carried out based on the principles of historicism, objectivity and systemic nature, permitting to consider the regional policy of the USSR in relation to the Urals and Siberia in the process of its formation and development, to evaluate the role and significance of a particular disputed territory in the process of registering the boundaries of the Soviet Russia’s regions. The general theoretic-conceptual basis of the article is the modernization theory, which offers an objective view to study the features of Russia’s development in the XX century. In particular, the role of regional policy as a set of solutions for transforming the country’s territorial and economic structure is related to progressive changes in all spheres of the society’s life, which are among the most important modernization tasks. The research was carried out with the help of special methods as well: a historical-system method - to consider the Ishim district as an object of regional policy in the integrated unity of its constituent branches and interacting with neighboring territories; a historical comparative method - to compare the goals and objectives of the studied areas and districts set by both the Soviet government and the Ural-Siberian authorities. The main result is implementing a comprehensive historical study of a separate economically specialized district (Ishim district) in the context of the Soviet regional policy of zoning in the early 1920s involving previously unused sources and their introduction into scientific circulation.
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