title: Maksim Starostin’s War Diary. 1941–1945
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metadata.value: Nielsen, J. P.
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metadata.value: 2022-12-30T00:09:56Z
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metadata.value: 2022-12-30T00:09:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Nielsen J. P. ‘Maksim Starostin’s War Diary. 1941–1945’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 3, 2022, pp. 742–751. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.314 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.314
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38815
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metadata.value: This article seeks to shed light on the diary of Maksim Ivanovich Starostin (1902–1948), First Secretary
  of the Murmansk Provisional Committee of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Murmansk Defense Committee,
  and written during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). As a colonel and later major-general, Starostin
  was a member of the Military Council of the Soviet Northern Fleet and the Military Council of the 14th Army, which
  conducted the defense of the Kola Peninsula. He travelled during both summer and winter to inspect the conditions
  of the soldiers at the front, at the same time working intensively to provide the city of Murmansk with building
  materials and food supplies. Starostin also played an important role organizing the fishing industry. A particular
  challenge that demanded much of his attention was the unloading of Allied vessels delivering equipment and
  goods of critical importance for the Soviet Union’s struggle against Nazi Germany. A significant problem in this
  regard was a lack of available manpower. Effective supervision of personnel was regarded by Starostin as a key to
  success. In many respects he was an ideal party leader, loyal to the political leadership of the country, but at the
  same time independent and not afraid to criticize decisions made at higher levels. Despite this, however, on the
  14th of April 1945 the Party Central Committee elected to transfer Starostin to Moscow, only weeks before victory.
  As a consequence, Starostin was prevented from celebrating Victory Day in Murmansk, a city to which he had
  given all his strength during the Great Patriotic War. Perhaps Starostin, in the eyes the Stalinist leadership, had
  become too powerful and independent to be left alone in the High North.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: regional party leaders
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arctic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Murmansk
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian North
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: military discipline
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Maksim Starostin’s War Diary. 1941–1945
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metadata.value: Article
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