The Soviet policy of organized migration. An example of the Moldavian SSR. Part II (1956-1967) Cover Image

Советская поли­тика организованной миграции. Пример Молдавской ССР. Часть II. (1956-1967)
The Soviet policy of organized migration. An example of the Moldavian SSR. Part II (1956-1967)

Author(s): Ruslan Sevcenco
Subject(s): History, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Facultatea de Istorie și Geografie, Universitatea Pedagogică de Stat „Ion Creangă”
Keywords: Kazachstan;Soviet Moldavia;resettlement;housing;workers;

Summary/Abstract: In the period under research, the geography of the activity of the Main Directorate for resettlement and selecting organized labor of the Moldavian SSR was radically reduced, mostly to the geographical borders of Kazakhstan. Outside of those selected for organized labor, different categories of the population migrated towards Kazakhstan, in particular, the youth and skilled workers. The majority of those sent were brought to Kazakhstan by passenger trains, which reached the destination in 6-7 days. Some migrants were put on freight trains. In the second half of the 1950s, and, in particular, during the 1960s, the fulfillment of plans on the selection and resettlement were secured with increasingly considerable efforts. The causes for this were both the growing requirements towards the quality of the workers, deployed in Kazakhstan and the gradual improvement of the economic situation in Moldova. This required the leadership of the Directorate to seek new arguments for justifying the failures in the execution of the approved plans, with these failures becoming more frequent. Their requirements for the selection of cadres, which became more drastic, as well as the constant change of the rules for the receipt of the workers, were submitted to the Directorate for resettlement and selecting the organized labor of the Moldavian SSR by the highest leadership of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and other Soviet republics.