Socio-psychological thinking of Siberian peasantry during the New Economic Policy

The paper analyzes the issues of social and psychological thinking of Siberian peasant during the New Economic Policy (NEP) period. In this regard, the author characterized the problems of society, which lived and labored Siberian peasantry, the specificity of the regional development of the area they live in the context of the overall trend of the New Economic Policy in Russia of the researching period. The publication revealed that the main result of the liberalization of agricultural policy in the New Economic Policy was the creation of a more coherent and strict social structure of the peasantry. In the development of the peasantry formed social groups, characterized by the class approach, according to which the peasantry is divided into poor, agricultural proletariat, the wealthy, the middle peasants, the kulak farms. This article will: extend the basic concepts related to the characteristics of the Siberian peasants used modern historical science, in particular, peasant studies. In addition, scientific findings influence the processes of longterm management study Siberian peasants in the XIX century (including a self-government system), its radical transformation in the Soviet era; contemporary analysis of government policy towards the peasants in the XIX - early XX century and in different time periods of Soviet history of the XX century. The results are qualitatively complement the existing knowledge in the modern historical science in Russia and will be useful in the continuing study of the appeal by the author topic. Particularly relevant is the subject of the article in the context of analysis of the dominant features of the state, to consider the establishment and completion of the process of sovereignty of Siberia, the fight against manifestations of bureaucracy, bribery and embezzlement, as well as the development of political and socio-economic aspects of the new economic policy in Siberia in 1921-1929.