Документы обследования бюджетов как источник для изучения повседневности колхозников в 1945-1955 гг.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of documents of the Russian State Archive of Economy and the State Archive of the Russian Federation on the survey of collective farmers' budgets as a source for studying the daily life of collective farm workers in the first post-war decade. In the funds of these archives, there are many documents with the results of the survey of collective farmers' families, including information about their income and expenses, food turnover, livestock, and labor costs in personal and collective farm. The article discusses the organization and progress of the survey, difficulties encountered in its process and possible errors in the array of collected information, describes forms for collecting primary information and provides examples of analytical reports and analysis of income changes obtained on the basis of the collected data. The chronological scope of the article is limited to 1945-1955. The introduction of new archival documents into scientific circle and the long time tracking of trends in income and expenses, food consumption, the purchase of industrial goods and the use of rural household contributes to a detailed reconstruction of the daily life of collective farmers.