The priorities of the Soviet state policy in the labor sphere sharply changed in early of 1930s. From «soft» instruments for regulating the labor market and migration flows, the government transferred to establishing maximum control over the usage of the country's labor potential. The practice of organized recruitment began to be combined with the direct use of non-economic mechanisms (forced labor of the special contingent).This symbiosis in the labor sphere is analyzed on the example of the coal industry of Kuzbass.

Krasilnikov Sergey Aleksandrovich, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Department of Russian History, Novosibirsk State University, 1, Pirogov st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation, Leading Researcher, Institute of History SB RAS; 8, Nikolaev st., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation, tel.: 8 (383) 330-13-49, e-mail : krass49@gmail.com

Krasilnikov S.A. From Recruitment to Compulsion and Coercion: Labor as a Political and Economic Resource of the Government Power in the Beginning of the 1930s. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2019, vol. 30, pp. 45-52. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2019.30.45 (in Russian)

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