Infrastrukturen im Sozialismus

Obertreis, Julia

doi:10.7788/saeculum.2007.58.1.151

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“…Эта система в корне отличалась от старой, дореволюционной, -прежде всего тем, что коммунальное хозяйство, ранее находившееся в ведении городских властей, впервые стало частью органов государственного управления. Так, Отдел коммунального хозяйства (Откомхоз) был непосредственно связан с Городским исполнительным комитетом и Ленсоветом, а также с секретными службами (ОГПУ -НКВД) 23 . Кроме того, изменились и правовые отношения между работниками и Откомхозом.…”

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Control by the Special Services in the Communal Services of Leningrad and the Labor Discipline (1918 — beginning of the 1930s)

Malinova-Tziafeta¹

2021

Modern History of Russia

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The article examines tense relations between the state, managers, and employees of industrial enterprises, concretely at the Vodokanalizatsiya Trust. The trust was engaged in the design, construction, and operation of water supply and sewage systems, the most important systems for modernizing urban space in the whole of Europe. Technological innovations were to be followed by social changes that could have their own specific traits in relation to other enterprises, since the trust did not belong to any of the most important branches of Soviet industry. Materials from the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg regarding activities of this department in the “Vodokanalizatsiya” trust show that a so-called Secret Department (Sekretnaya chast) or Secret Police, a branch of the OGPU — NKVD, gradually began to play an increasingly important role in managing these enterprises. Through these Secret Departments, new principles of hiring and dismissal from work, as well as imposing disciplinary sanctions, were introduced in the late 1920s. The special attention of the Secret Department was received by so-called “former people,” as well as by representatives of peoples. All this took place under conditions of an acute shortage of skilled labor in Leningrad. Thus, the state’s interests in economic development came into conflict with other interests, which in state literature are labelled as “ideological” and are rarely analyzed in detail. The article discusses the real case of anti-Soviet agitation, of which the central figure was a worker in the communal services of Leningrad. Thus, the role of the OGPU — NKVD in the development of the Soviet industry in the 1930s is studied using the example of the Vodokanalizatsiya Trust.

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Control by the Special Services in the Communal Services of Leningrad and the Labor Discipline (1918 — beginning of the 1930s)

Malinova-Tziafeta¹

2021

Modern History of Russia

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From Upscaling to Rescaling: Transforming the Fergana Basin from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan

Kreutzmann

2016

Society - Water - Technology

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The Fergana Valley is regarded as one of the most fertile irrigated oases in Asia. The genesis of these highly productive agricultural lands is the result of a lengthy process that originated long before the Kokand Khanate controlled most of the valley. Major transformations occurred during Tsarist Russian rule when the upscaling of this irrigated land commenced and when Fergana was integrated into long-distance exchange networks. Major water works were planned, but only implemented in a massive fashion during Soviet rule with its major campaigns for modernisation and planning on a large scale. Cross-border management was established in the highly integrated water scheme at the same time. Rescaling is a challenge of contemporary times with the pressures of globalisation, independent Uzbekistan's dependence on water supplies from its neighbours who share the Fergana Valley's hydraulic resources and the conditions governing the cotton world market.

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Coping with change: responses of the Uzbek water management regime to socio-economic transition and global change

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Pahl‐Wostl

2010

Environmental Science & Policy

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Infrastrukturen im Sozialismus

Cited by 6 publications

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Control by the Special Services in the Communal Services of Leningrad and the Labor Discipline (1918 — beginning of the 1930s)

Control by the Special Services in the Communal Services of Leningrad and the Labor Discipline (1918 — beginning of the 1930s)

From Upscaling to Rescaling: Transforming the Fergana Basin from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan

Coping with change: responses of the Uzbek water management regime to socio-economic transition and global change

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