Помощь Советского Союза голодающему крестьянству Кореи в 1925 году

Корееведение. 2024. № 2(7). С. 5–13.

Leshakov P., Terekhin N.

For the first time in the Russian historiography, based on previously unknown archival documents, the article examines the less-researched topic of the relationship between the Peasants’ International and the Korean peasantry using the example of financial assistance to the Korean peasantry affected by the 1925 flood. In 1925, the Korean peninsula was hit by a powerful flood that brought thousands of peasant households to the edge of destruction. One of the first to respond to the request for help was the Peasant International, which started a fundraising campaign in the Soviet Union. The main objective of this fundraising campaign was to strengthen the influence of the Peasants’ International on Korean peasant organizations, which would subsequently lead to the establishment of a link between them and the Peasants’ International. In spite of all the difficulties faced by this campaign, it achieved its aims. Firstly, the money, although it is believed that it was intercepted by the Japanese relief committee, was delivered to the Korean peasantry and provided some support. Secondly, a certain influence was still gained, since the fact that the Soviet Union and the Peasants’ International were engaged in collecting and sending aid was known both to Korean newspapers and to members of the socio-religious organization Cheondogyo, which in 1926 became the Korean section of the Peasants’ International.

Keywords: финансовая помощь, financial aid, colonial Korea, колониальная Корея, Peasants’ International, flood of 1925, Soviet-Korean relations, Korean peasantry, Крестьянский интернационал, наводнение 1925 г., советско-корейские отношения, корейское крестьянство