Open AccessThe peasantry of Donbass during the first war of Soviet Russia against the UPR and the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic
Author(s) -
Artem Datsenko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vìsnik lugansʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì tarasa ševčenka. fìlologìčnì nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-2844
DOI - 10.12958/2227-2844-2021-4(342)-99-109
Subject(s) - peasant , offensive , ukrainian , political science , spanish civil war , economic history , the republic , geography , agrarian society , state (computer science) , china , economy , history , law , archaeology , agriculture , operations research , engineering , economics , linguistics , philosophy , theology , algorithm , computer science
The article studies the events in the countryside of Donbass since December 1917 to May 1918 The author examines the features of the Bolshevik policy in the Donbass in the countryside and the attitude of the peasants to this policy. The events geographically described in the article cover the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions within the boundaries of 2013. The article examines the main directions of the agrarian policy of the Soviet government in the form of redistribution of land and implements, the creation of collective farms, pumping out products from the village, as well as anti-Ukrainian separatism as a tactical step of the Bolsheviks. The author notes the artificiality of such a state formation as the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic, as well as the fact that it was invented by the Bolsheviks solely for tactical purposes and did not defend the interests of the overwhelming majority of the Donbass population. The article analyzes the peasant resistance to the policy of „war communis”, as well as the role of the peasantry in countering the counter-offensive of the UPR army, supported by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies. The author comes to the conclusion that the Donbass peasantry did not want to defend the DKSR, which was one of the reasons for the defeat of the Bolsheviks on the territory of Donbass and the future elimination of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Soviet Republic by the Bolsheviks as a state entity.