Ural-Siberian method

Ural-Siberian method

The so called Ural-Siberian Method was an extraordinary measure launched in the Soviet Union in 1927/28 for the collection of grain from the countryside. Placed in the backdrop of the famine of 1927 which resulted from the ‘Scissors Crisis’ of the mid 1920s, the Soviets utilized forced grain requisitioning through the arrest of private traders, the closing of markets and arrest of suspected kulaks (real or imagined).

The Ural-Siberian method was a return to the drastic policies that had characterized War Communism in the period prior to Lenin’s New Economic Policy. The Ural-Siberian method is historically significant as it illustrates the coercive and strained relationship between the Soviet and the peasantry, the extreme difficulties and horrors associated with collectivization and more importantly the willingness of Stalin’s government to use force and whatever means necessary in their dealings with the peasantry to achieve their goals for the countryside.

References

Suny, Ronald Grigor. "The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States". New York: Oxford, 1998.


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