Social and political instability as a growth factor protest movement miners Kuzbass during the transition to market (1992-1999)

The widespread protest movement Kuzbass miners during the transition to a market economy was a consequence not only failures in the process of restructuring the coal industry, but also the crisis in the political life of the country and region. Vertical power was weak, made to Uregei-regulation of conflict measures were not consistent, sometimes contradictory, and produced the opposite effect. Administration of the Kemerovo region strongly demanded an agreement on the delimitation of powers between it and the federal center, but to no avail. Mining community was split into supporters and opponents of socioeconomic policy of the Kremlin. This has greatly contributed to the confrontation of two industry trade unions - NPD and SPRUE. In the struggle for leadership, they staged demonstrations shares, including oc-stnogo character. Political uncertainty has stimulated the use of miners to protest potential in the struggle for power by various political parties and movements. The most noticeable-mi in the political life of the workers of the Kemerovo region in the 1990s. were the LDPR and the Communist Party. With the active participation of the workers were first put forward political demands: resignation of the President and the Government, heads of regional administration. The obvious reason for the radicalization of protest was the ineffectiveness of the miners' regional and local authorities, especially in social and economic issues. Trying to Russian President Boris Yeltsin to strengthen political stability in the region, by changing the head of the Administration of the Kemerovo region, M.B. Kislyuk on the popular politician in the province - A.G. Tuleyev summer of 1997, was temporary. Therefore, during the All-Russian "rail war" in May-July 1998 the miners of the Kuzbass basic demands presented to the Government and the President of Russia. In general, the relationship of socio-political unrest and protest movement of the Kuzbass coal miners during the transition to a market economy indicates a high degree of dependence on social and economic processes in the region from the policy of the federal government. "Experimental" nature of reforms in the coal industry is not reinforced by additional political power to administratsii Kemerovo region, a situation which gave rise to a chronic backlog of politics from the economy and social sphere of the miners.

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