ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING COURSES FOR MOBILIZATION PERSONNEL OF CIVIL PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIATS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN THE SOVIET STATE Cover Image

ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ КУРСОВ ПОДГОТОВКИ МОБИЛИЗАЦИОННЫХ РАБОТНИКОВ ГРАЖДАНСКИХ НАРКОМАТОВ И УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ СОВЕТСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА
ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING COURSES FOR MOBILIZATION PERSONNEL OF CIVIL PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIATS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN THE SOVIET STATE

Author(s): Oksana Yurievna Repukhova
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, History of ideas, Political history
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: USSR; RSFSR; mobilization preparation; training courses; mobilization divisions

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the process of organizing the interdepartmental training courses for mobilization personnel of the civil People’sCommissariats and other government agencies, using the case of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), thelargest USSR republic, and documents which have not been used for such research so far. At the turn of the 1930s, the first interdepartmentalmobilization plan of the Soviet state was created. Military and civil mobilization preparation was assigned to civil People’sCommissariats and agencies, where special mobilization divisions (cells and units) were formed. The lack of experience and knowledgeamong mobilization cells members, who were to organize mobilization activities of the civil People’s Commissariats and otheragencies, hindered the effective formation of the nationwide mobilization plan. The first training courses for civil mobilization personnelwere established at the military district headquarters in 1927 and 1928. They were assigned to various People’s Commissariats andhad low throughput. In 1929, amid changes in the country’s system of interdepartmental mobilization leading bodies, the Red ArmyHeadquarters and the RSFSR State Planning Committee proposed the options for the reorganization of the existing training courses.This resulted in establishing standard interdepartmental training courses for civil mobilization personnel, which were territoriallyassigned to the military district headquarters.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 8 (185)
  • Page Range: 80-84
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Russian