Mikheev M. V. The Urals and Ukraine in the System of Interregional Contradictions of the 1920s – 1930s (Part 1)

Mikhail V. Mikheev
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ekaterinburg, Russia
E-mail: mikheeviiiauroran@yandex.ru
ORCID: 0000-0001-8097-4953

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UDC 94(470.5+477)“1920/1930”
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2024-3-1-46-63

ABSTRACT. The presented research opens a series of articles devoted to the problem of interregional economic contradictions between the Urals and Ukraine in the USSR during the interwar period. During the period under review, these two regions concentrated the vast majority of the productive forces of the Soviet ferrous metallurgy. Thus, they were to become poles of growth for the future Stalinist industrialization, which in turn meant the need to divide significant investments, technical, raw materials and human resources between Ukraine and the Urals, and reorganize the USSR transport infrastructure for them. Such a redistribution could not happen without conflicts and contradictions. The latter were due to the inertia of the economic development of the Urals and Ukraine in the late Imperial period. In the late XIX — early XX centuries, the two regions were about to start a fierce competition for domestic markets for metallurgical products. The First World War and the 1917events interrupted this process, however, in the Soviet Union, trends persisted that opposed the Urals and Ukraine to each other. At the same time, they were not only a continuation of pre-revolutionary projects of territorial reorganization of Russia’s economy, but were also the result of the changed economic and political conjuncture in the post-revolutionary period. The article is the first part of our research. It concerns the issues of the genesis of the Ural-Ukrainian contradictions that were relevant in the run-up to industrialization.

KEYWORDS: Urals, Ukraine, Western Siberia, Southern Russia, Late Imperial period, industrialization, sectionalism.

For citation: Mikheev M. V. The Urals and Ukraine in the System of Interregional Contradictions of the 1920s – 1930s (Part 1) // Historical Geography Journal. 2024 Vol. 3 № 1 P. 36–45.

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