Dynamics and Features of Unemployment in the Siberian Region in the Second Half of the 1920s

Abstract

The article analyzes the number of unemployed people in the Siberian Region in the second half of the 1920s, as well as the features of unemployment in the region. The relevance of the topic is determined by the persistence of this problem in the modern world, so a systematic study of the historical experience of regulating and limiting the growth of unemployment can be useful for reducing social difficulties in modern society. The policy of the Bolsheviks in the first post-war decade, including the introduction of the NEP and the weakening of the policy of strict regulation of the economy, caused an increase in the number of unemployed individuals in the Soviet state. During the period under review, the official unemployment in the USSR, in general, and in the Siberian Region, in particular, reached its maximum values compared to previous years, becoming stagnant. The real economic picture did not correspond to the ideological doctrine of the ruling party, which allowed unemployment only in capitalist countries. The work questions the thesis, entrenched in Soviet historiography, about the elimination of unemployment in the USSR in the early 1930s, and, based on various statistical data, a conclusion is made about the state of the labor market in the Siberian region in the second half of the 1920s.