Control of State Authorities over the Industry of Siberia (1921–1925)

Abstract

Siberia in the 20s. The 20th century was an economically underdeveloped region with the overwhelming dominance of small-scale semi-artisan industry and an extremely low population density. The working class was heterogeneous and scattered over a vast territory. In total, he totaled about 325 thousand workers, including 100 thousand people worked in the mining industry, and up to 85 thousand people worked on the railway. The majority of the population (over 9 million people) were peasants. There were few cities and they rather performed administrative functions than were industrial centers. In this regard, the problem of analyzing the state regulation of the Siberian industry in the first years of the NEP has its own peculiarities, including those related to the cultural and historical past of peoples, traditions, ethnic composition of the population, the level of economic development of the Soviet state, etc. It seems that the characterization of the processes of denationalization, rental of enterprises, organization of trusts and syndicates, the search for new forms of organization and management of industrial production can be used in studying the further development of the state, its structures, including in today’s Russia. Important, in our opinion, is the consideration of legislative acts of the NEP period, which were aimed at regulatory regulation of relations in the industry. Thus, the historical experience of Siberia showed that the existence of various forms of ownership and rental relations during the NEP could not lead to the full functioning of industrial enterprises, including large ones, since the successful functioning of market relations requires the creation of a full-fledged market environment.