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Anatolian Peasants in the Great Depression 1929–1933

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Elif Akçetin
Elif Akçetin*
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University of Washington, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies
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The effects of the Great Depression of 1929 on peasants in Turkey is an area of study that has remained neglected, despite the fact that peasants then constituted 75 percent of the population. The reason why the condition of peasants has not attracted much attention is the dramatic change between the economic policies of the 1920s and those of the 1930s. The immediate consequence of the stock-market crash and the sudden drop in prices was the shrinkage of international trade. Governments dealt with the depression by implementing quotas on imports, and liberal economic policies were no longer considered successful. Protectionism became the most popular policy for the management of economies in difficulty. The change in economic policies during this period constituted a break with the past and therefore has been the principal focus of studies on the Great Depression.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 23 , Fall 2000 , pp. 79 - 102
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2000

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