title: The “Tank Affair” of 1949: How Problems of the Defensive Industry were Solved during the Post-War Period
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metadata.value: Fedorov, A. N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-29T15:40:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-29T15:40:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Fedorov A. N. The “Tank Affair” of 1949: How Problems of the Defensive Industry were Solved during the Post-War Period, Modern History of Russia, no. 4, 2017, pp. 69–86.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9000
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article considers measures taken by the USSR top leadership in 1949 to resolve the most acute
  problems of the Soviet tank industry. Emergency intervention in the affairs of this defense industry was due to
  the fact that from 1946 to 1948 it was in crisis. Due to a number of objective problems, its enterprises could not
  successfully develop new types of armored vehicles and produce them in the needed quantities. This crisis was
  compounded by the fact that senior management did not sufficiently delve into the problem of the tank industry.
  The situation changed at the beginning of 1949, when the aggravation of international relations strengthened Stalin’s
  attention to the defense industry and information on the failures in the tank industry reached him. Because
  Stalin was personally involved in this issue, in the shortest time all levels of government (the Council of Ministers,
  ministries and enterprise management) were mobilized. The Bureau under the USSR Council of Ministers was
  established to give more effective control and coordination of the work of the tank industry. The supervision of
  all tank questions was provided by the best professionals in this sphere: V. A. Malyshev and E. Yu. Maksarev. For
  more successful mobilization of managers, various individual punishments were administered, the most severe
  and demonstrative of which was the resignation of the director of the Kirov plant I. M. Zaltsman. However, largescale
  personnel purges were not carried out, as they could disorganize the work of the industry. All these measures,
  along with the allocation of additional material resources and inter-departmental struggle, made it possible
  already by the end of 1949 to upgrade new tank models and prepare for their mass production. However, other
  important problems of the tank industry remained unresolved.
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;Issue 4(21)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tank Industry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Post-War Period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kirov Plant
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Uralvagonzavod
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Purges
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mobilization Economy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: J. V. Stalin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. A. Malyshev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: L. Z. Mehlis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. M. Zaltzman
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The “Tank Affair” of 1949: How Problems of the Defensive Industry were Solved during the Post-War Period
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metadata.value: Article
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