title: The Manufacturing of Ration Cards in the Besieged City of Leningrad, 1941–1943
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metadata.value: Gavrilova, O. A.
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metadata.value: Khodjakov, M. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2016-11-11T14:03:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2016-11-11T14:03:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016
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metadata.value: Gavrilova O. A., Khodjakov M. V. The Manufacturing of Ration Cards in the Besieged City of Leningrad, 1941–1943, Modern History of Russia, no. 2, 2016. P. 44-67.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2016.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/5640
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Based off of a wide range of archival materials, this article reveals a little-known chapter in the history of the Leningrad
  blockade—the processes involved with the manufacturing of food ration cards for the population of the besieged city. The authors
  describe the initial phase of the rationing system in Leningrad by showing the diversity of circulating ration cards and coupons which
  personified the system of rationed food supply. The authors also note that the Leningrad City Soviet Executive Committee’s office for
  the management and allocation of food and industrial goods ration cards during 1941–42 was headed by Ivan G. Stozhilov. The latter
  office not only controlled the production of the cards, but was also—for the Party and Soviet bodies involved—one of the main sources
  in defining the size of the city’s population. The authors’ analysis of documents involved suggests the production of ration cards in
  Leningrad began hastily after the German attack on the Soviet Union. This work was entrusted to the Volodarskii printing factory
  located in the vicinity of the Leningrad paper mill which produced the special paper involved. Issues related to the number of cards
  printed for the city’s populations—as well as the very process of manufacturing of these valuable products—were closely controlled
  by its Party and Soviet leadership. In 1942, because of the economic state of emergency which city lived under, ration cards began to
  be produced on plain paper instead of paper with water marks. This latter fact contributed to increasing the number of counterfeit
  cards. Often the specialists of printing factory themselves were involved in this crime. At the same time there were recorded cases of
  stealing cards from shops of the printing factories, where they were being manufactured.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке РГНФ. Проект № 14-01-00406.
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
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Issue 2(16)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Siege
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1941–1943
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ration cards
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Volodarsky printing factory
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. G. Stozhilov
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Manufacturing of Ration Cards in the Besieged City of Leningrad, 1941–1943
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metadata.value: Article
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