Problems of Land Management of Ethnic Minorities in the Don, Kuban and Stavropol in the 1920s: Some Aspects of State Policy

The article is devoted to the state policy of the land structure in relation to ethnic communities on the Don, Kuban and Stavropol in the 1920s. The peculiarities of land management among ethnic minorities living in the region, including Armenians,
Germans, Greeks, Turkmens, etc., are touched upon.
The scientifi c relevance of the problem under consideration is due to the lack of works of a generalizing nature, which analyzes the state policy in the fi eld of land management, which remained a priority in the ethnic environment throughout the 1920s.
In this article, the task is to identify the basic principles, mechanisms and directions of land management policy in the ethnic environment of the Don, Kuban and Stavropol in the 1920s, to determine its specifi cs and assess its signifi cance during the transformation of the social and economic structure of ethnic communities.
It was found that the land management policy was aimed at reformatting the economic and social structure of ethnic communities, since priority in the course of land management was given to the poor and middle-class masses.
The process of land management proceeded unevenly, with diff erent dynamics, and in general was not fully completed by the end of the 1920s. However, its results created prerequisites for a policy of collectivization, during which the fi nal version of land
management and class diff erentiation was continued in a more rigid form.