DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OF THE WEST REGIONS IN THE UkrSSR: PLANS OF STATE AND PARTY BODIES POWERS AND PERSPECTIVES OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION (at the end of the 1960s – the first half of the 1970s)

Svitlana  LUKYANCHENKO; Oleh  MURAVSKYI

doi:10.24919/2519-058X.24.264740

Authors

Svitlana LUKYANCHENKO PhD (History), Associate Professor of the Department of Humanities of Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-7642
Oleh MURAVSKYI PhD (History), learned secretary at Ivan Krypiakevych Institute for Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2776-5156

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.24.264740

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to analyze the development scale of the agricultural sector and basic industries of the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR at the end of the 1960s – the first half of the 1970s, to point out the planning drawbacks of the central state and party authorities in (a) determining the geolocation of enterprises, (b) their technical equipment, (c) implementation of progressive technologies, (d) use of a human potential, as well as to elucidate the course of discussions between regional party elites and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which related to a complex of socio economic issues. The methodology of research is based on a complex of problems related to socio-economic development of the western regions of the Ukrainian SSR during the period under study and is determined by general scientific methods (comparative, dialectical, structural functional, etc.) and special historical methods (historical genetic, historical comparative, historical and typological, historical systemic, etc.). The scientific novelty of the research: in historical retrospect, the plans of state party authorities, aimed at increasing the industrial potential of the Western Ukrainian region, have been covered critically; the vision of the local party elite regarding the socio economic development of each region has been shown; the contradictions that existed between regional committees and the State Planning Committee (the DerzhPlan) of the Ukrainian SSR in the process of planning industrial capacities, feasibility of capital investments, (ir)rational use of funds, etc., have been indicated. The Conclusions. The post-war reconstruction of the agro-industrial complex of the western Ukrainian regions was accompanied by the intentions of the central state party authorities to transform the region into a powerful industrial center of the Ukrainian SSR. However, the excessive concentration of management powers in the hands of the “center” often led to unjustified decisions from an economic point of view, provoked criticism from the local party elite, which usually tried to adjust the plans of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the State Planning Committee (the DerzhPlan) of the Ukrainian SSR unsuccessfully. The drawbacks of the command-administrative system of economic management became evident in the 1980s and led to a large-scale socio economic crisis, the consequences of which reverberated in the political sphere and, ultimately, became one of the factors of the USSR collapse.

Key words: agro-industrial complex, Ukrainian SSR, western Ukrainian regions, CPU, State Planning Committee (DerzhPlan) of the USSR.

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