The organization of labour immigrants from Czechoslovakia in Frolov district of the Lower-Volga region in the 1920 and 1930s

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Based on unpublished archival sources, this article considers the history and development of industrial organizations of labour immigrants from Czechoslovakia on the territory of the Lower Volga region in the 1920 and 1930s. The activities of the “Agricultural commune of Czechoslovak emigres” and the handicraft “Association of Czechoslovak Emigrants” illustrate how Soviet legislation was applied to labour immigration, how party authorities and economic bodies related to the two immigrant units, and how foreign workers adapted to the conditions in the USSR. Despite the many difficulties that labour immigrants had to overcome, their activities on the territory of Stalingrad province constitute a successful example of international workers’ cooperation in the USSR. The authors demonstrate that the production associations of labour immigrants from Czechoslovakia made a significant contribution to the strengthening and development of the economic complex of Frolov district in the Lower Volga region during the period under review. Through the efforts of the Czechoslovak citizens, shoe production and tanning were organized for the first time on industrial level. Later a metal plant emerged on the basis of the “Krasny Vagranschik” artel created by immigrants from Czechoslovakia. The experience of state regulation on labour immigration in the USSR can be successfully used in modern Russia’s practice of international cooperation.

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Olga V Erokhina


Moscow Pedagogical State University, Institute of History and Politics

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Email: erokhinaov@gmail.com

доктор исторических наук (Воронежский государственный университет, 2011), профессор кафедры истории России Московского педагогического государственного университета. Специализируется в области социально-экономической истории Российской империи и СССР в 20-е гг. XX в. Сфера научных интересов: история немецких колоний в дореволюционной России, история немецкого предпринимательства в России до 1917 г., российско-германские экономические отношения в конце XIX - начале XX в., концессионная политика и практика советского государства. Автор более 100 научных публикаций

88 Prospekt Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119571, Russia

Ekaterina L Furman

Volgograd State University

Email: ekaterina.furman@volsu.ru

кандидат исторических наук (Волгоградский государственный университет, 2008), доцент кафедры отечественной и всеобщей истории, археологии Волгоградского государственного университета. Сферой научных интересов является социально-экономическая история Российской империи и СССР первой половины XX в., в частности, проблемы кооперативного движения, трудовой иммиграции в СССР, концессионная политика и практика в Российской империи и СССР. Автор более 50 научных публикаций

100 Prosp. Universitetsky, Volgograd, 400062, Russia

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