Statistics of the USSR and Leningrad During the Great Patriotic War
https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2020-27-3-104-116
Abstract
The article looks at how Soviet, Russian state statistics operated during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Statistical activities within both the system of state structures, led by the Central Statistical Board of the USSR State Planning Committee, and departmental statistics, organized at that time in sectoral management structures – Narkomats (People’s Commissariats). The authors show how urgent mobilization of all the nation’s resources for needs of the front led to the changes in statistical work; this was primarily related to priorities of statistical observations and time frames of statistical works.
The paper analyses main directions of statistical activity on the collection and processing of information on different levels of the managerial structure and at the industry level. The authors review all advances in statistics that happened in wartime conditions urgent censuses (surveys) and operational data transfer, a system of operational accounting.
In a separate section of the article using archival sources, for the first time, are considered the problems of organizing statistical activities in Leningrad, the city that found itself in the blockade ring in 1941, and ways to solve them in extreme military conditions.
About the Authors
N. Yu. Cherepenina
Central State Archive of St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda Yu. Cherepenina – Head, Department for the Use and Publication of Documents
1, Antonova-Ovseenko Str., Bldg. 1-A, Saint Petersburg, 193168
A. L. Dmitriev
St. Petersburg State University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton L. Dmitriev – Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Docent, Department of General Economic Theory and History of Economic Thought, St. Petersburg State University of Economics; Docent, Department of Economic Cybernetics, St. Petersburg State University; Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Actual History, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
21, Sadovaya Str., St. Petersburg, 191023
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Cherepenina N.Yu., Dmitriev A.L. Statistics of the USSR and Leningrad During the Great Patriotic War. Voprosy statistiki. 2020;27(3):104-116. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2020-27-3-104-116
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