«Wild Predation» or Rational Use: Business Executives and Planners — about Forest Resources in the 1930s
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.93.6.001
Abstract
The reform of forestry and the forest industry in the Soviet Union at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s led to the strengthening of the role of the state in forestry activities and the formation of a new model of forest use. The purpose of the article is to analyze the ideas of business executives and scientists in the 1930s about forest resources and their use. The publications of business executives, specialists in the forest industry, planners, including in specialized journals: «Forest Industry», «Planned economy» are considered. Their study made it possible to identify the topics raised in the press, the possibilities of influencing the forest policy of party and state bodies. It was noted that the large-scale tasks of the five-year plans, the mobilization nature of the directives of the party and state bodies, the transfer of significant forest areas to the industrial people’s commissariats formed an idea among business executives about the priority of activating timber harvesting before forestry activities. Scientists have identified the negative sides of continuous logging, non-use of wood waste, low rates of logging and reforestation. In the second half of the 1930s, they focused their efforts on studying the positive and negative sides of the new model of forest management, justifying the need to adjust it in order to mitigate the negative consequences of an environmental and economic nature. The most important consequence of this was the establishment of a water protection zone in the European part of the country in 1936.
About the Author
I. V. Zykin
Ural Federal University Named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Zykin Ivan Valerievich - PhD (History Sciences), Associate Professor of the Department of Russian History
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Zykin I.V. «Wild Predation» or Rational Use: Business Executives and Planners — about Forest Resources in the 1930s. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(6(93)):11-19. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.93.6.001
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