Труднощі відбудови сільського господарства українського Придунав’я (1944-1947 рр.)

Abstract

In the first postwar years, the reconstruction process was associated with extreme difficulties due to large-scale destruction, material and human losses, the effects of the famine of 1946-1947, lack of agricultural machinery, skilled workers, insufficient state funding for agriculture and more. The collective farms, state farms and MTS were destroyed and looted. The author seeks to reveal the difficulties of restoring agricultural potential in the command and administrative system, the labor efforts of the population in the revival of the agricultural sector of the Ukrainian Danube region. The article considers the state of Izmail region after the end of the Second World War, analyzes the public policy on the agriculture reconstruction in the region in the first post-war years. The development of the villages of Izmail region of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-1947 is comprehensively studied. The economic initiative and labor discipline of the peasants were not financially supported; on the contrary, the management of the agricultural sector was excessively centralized. The pre-war crop production area restoration and the amount of grain harvest in the region, which came from collective farms, collective farmers and individual farmers until the end of 1947 was not achieved, and agriculture continued to be in a state of acute crisis. The article also covers the process of restoration of economic, socio-cultural and educational sectors of Izmail region. The study of the problems of the agricultural sector post-war reconstruction and development is relevant in the light of the fact that the revival of the village is one of the priorities of the government at the present stage of state building in Ukraine.