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- Aleksey N. Zuyev
- Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko Military Academy of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence
- Ivan I. Nikonov
- Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko Military Academy of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence
- Consumers cooperative society in Yaroslavl Region at the period of World War II
- Zuyev A.N., Nikonov I.I. Consumers cooperative society in Yaroslavl Region at the period of World War II. Kostroma State University reporter. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2020, vol. 26, № 2, рр. 108–114. DOI 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-108-114
- DOI:
10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-2-108-114
- УДК:
94(471.316)"1941/1945"
- Publish date:
2020-03-25
- Annotation:
The article reveals the problems raised towards the consumers cooperative society in the context of the beginning of World War II. The authors show that the cooperative society activity was under control of the Communist Party leadership and authorities. The article reflects the changes in the financial system of the consumers cooperative society and cooperative work. The authors enlighten particular activity and statistics of the consumers cooperative society of Yaroslavl Region on procuring and commodities production. The article is about difficulties faced at the increment of cooperative distributing network and public catering as well as the measures taken by the party and cooperative authorities corrective measure towards removal of disadvantages. A special emphasis in the article is made to describe the targeted help of the co-operators to particular fronts and districts. The authors also investigated through Yaroslavl co-operators attitude and practical help to the western regions and Leningrad regarding children’s and adults’ supply with all necessary items and goods. The article describes the process of output expansion by the commodities production such as clothes, shoes, dishes and furniture. For the first time the archival sources have been scientifically implemented. The conclusion is drawn regarding successful consumers cooperative society activity to solve tasks for essential commodities supply, making possible the state factories diversify its production for specific immediate demands of the front.
- Keywords:
consumers cooperative society, demands of front, Yaroslavl Region, Regional Committee of All-Union Communist Party, District Committee of All-Union Communist Party, Regional Consumer's Association, District Consumer's Association.
- Literature list:
40 let Sovetskoj potrebitel'skoj kooperacii [40 years of the Soviet consumers cooperative society], 1957, 244 p.
Klimov A.I. Potrebitel'skaja kooperacija v sisteme razvitogo socializma [Consumers cooperative society in the system of the full-fledged socialism], 306 p.
Jaroslavcy v gody Velikoj Otechestvennoj vojny [The Yaroslav people in the years of the Great Patriotic War: collection of documents]. Yaroslavl, 1960. 445 p.
- Author's info:
Aleksey N. Zuyev, ORCID 0000-0001-9553-7262, Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko Military Academy of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence, Kostroma, Russia E-mail: zuewa-1987@mail.ru
- Co-author's info:
Ivan I. Nikonov, ORCID 0000-0001-9553-7262, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Marshal of the Soviet Union Timoshenko Military Academy of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence, Kostroma, Russia