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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «ISTORIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «HISTORY»
ISSN 2222-9124 (Print)

List of issues > Series «History». 2026. Vol 56

The Formation of the Image of a “Pest in Agriculture” in the Official Discourse of the 1930s (Based on the Material from Eastern Siberia)

Author(s)

M. A. Proskuryakova

Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation

Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of motives, mechanism, and features of the formation of the image of a “pest” in the agriculture of Eastern Siberia in the 1930s. It presents a microhistorical approach, revealing the implementation of state agricultural policy from the specific to the general in the late 1930s. Repression of “saboteurs” was legitimized by popular approval or the creation of such approval in the press by collectives of workers, employees, and collective farmers. The phenomenon of “sabotage” shaped the social space and mass consciousness of rural society.
About the Authors
Proskuryakova Maria Anatolyevna, Research Lecture, Postgraduate, Department of History and Philosophy Irkutsk National Research Technical University 83, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation e-mail: morevna94@mail.ru.
For citation
Proskuryakova M.A. The Formation of the Image of a “Pest in Agriculture” in the Official Discourse of the 1930s (Based on the Material from Eastern Siberia). The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2026, vol. 56, pp. 39-47. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2026.56.39 (in Russian)
Keywords
sabotage, pest, repressions, agriculture, collective farms, microhistory.
UDC
94(47).084.571
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2026.56.39
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