AGRICULTURE OF THE CRIMEA IN THE POST-WAR YEARS (1944-1953): DYNAMICS AND TENDENCIES OF DEVELOPMENT
The issue of restoration and development of agriculture in post-war Crimea turned out to be closely connected in political sense with the causes of excluding it from the RSFSR and including it in the Ukranian Republic in 1954. There are two historiographic concepts in assessing the state of agriculture on the peninsula: positive development and depressive agrarian economy. On the basis of the analysis of the statistical and other kinds of data it is concluded that: in the whole the Crimean agriculture was developing rather dynamically and in many aspects exceeded the pre-war parametres, despite the war damage and the 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tartars. The rate of economic growth and the tendencies of development are used by the author of the article as a criterion for assessing the state of the economy.