State policy on grain and livestock procurement in Kazakhstan and peasant uprising of 1928–1932

Abstract

The article examines the mechanisms and consequences of the state campaign for grain and meat procurement, which was one of the reasons for the peasant uprisings in Kazakhstan in 1929–1932. On the basis of archival documents the authors analyze the economic significance of the campaign for grain and meat procurement, their impact on the development of the agrarian sector and the methods of coercion of the peasants of the Soviet regime. The fact that the economic and political measures of the sedentary, seminomadic regions aroused the discontent of the peasants is considered in detail. On the basis of archival data, the repressions against peasants by party, Soviet, investigative and judicial bodies in Kazakhstan are analyzed.