title: Soviet Experience in Managing Evacuation Cargoes in 1941–1942: From Over-centralization to Local Initiative
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metadata.value: Potemkina, M. N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-08-17T17:27:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-08-17T17:27:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Potemkina M. N. ‘Soviet Experience in Managing Evacuation Cargoes in 1941–1942: From Over-centralization to Local Initiative’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, pp. 25–38. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.102 (In Russian)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.102
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43770
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: To understand the functioning of the Russian economic system in the current turbulent conditions, it is
  important to study historical experience, especially the issue of the relationship between centralization and independence
  in management practices under the extreme conditions of the Great Patriotic War. The source base of
  the study is represented by documents from central and local Russian archives, most of which are introduced into
  scholarship for the first time. The study applies an institutional methodological approach, which enables to understand
  ways of solving managerial problems; methods of source study; and system analysis. The article considers
  the mechanism for managing transportation, storage and further use of evacuated goods, including industrial
  raw materials, finished products of industrial enterprises, food supplies, household items, and other valuables. It
  also reveals difficulties in the course of the evacuation process, which were determined by the lack of evacuation
  plans, the loss of significant territories due to their capture by the enemy, and the general lack of resources. The
  study demonstrates that over-centralization in management and the dominance of violent methods during the
  evacuation of human and material resources proved their inefficiency in the first months of the war, so gradually
  the authority to distribute goods arriving from the frontline to the rear areas began to be transferred down to the
  regional level. The conclusion of the article concerns the expansion of the operational independence of local
  authorities in the rear regions in the extreme conditions of the war. Thanks to a combination of centralization and
  decentralization in management practices, most of the evacuated cargoes was saved, and their use contributed
  to achieving the victory in the war.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was prepared with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan,
  project no. АР09260449 “Production everyday life at defense enterprises of Kazakhstan and the Ural-Volga
  region of Russia during the Great Patriotic War: A comparative analysis”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 13; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evacuation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evacuated cargoes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transport
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Soviet Experience in Managing Evacuation Cargoes in 1941–1942: From Over-centralization to Local Initiative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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