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The article presents the experience of working with the documents from the funds of the State Archive of the Altai Territory related to the issue of food supply of the population in the 1960s-1980s. The authors analyse of the degree of objectivity of this kind of sources, content completeness and make an attempt to estimate the role of archival materials in the study of the history of trade by food goods, catering establishments in separate cities and the territory as a whole. The budgets and staff registers of financial institutions and industrial enterprises of Altai cities cover the extent of their relationship with trade organizations, the structure and level of development of the city trade departments of fruit and vegetable and food products and, as a result, the organization of the retail trade system. The authors conclude that despite the high degree of pursue to the ideology in drawing up texts of documents those period, the enforcing of digital indicators to absolute in accordance with the established Gosplan (state plan), one should not exclude the value of the available material in studying topical issues of the food supply system, qualitative level of service and quantitative indicators of product consumption. However, it is necessary to confirm the information contained in the financial and reporting documents in other sources on the topic of the study.

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  • Issues of Food Supply of the Population in the 1960s–1980s in the Materials of the State Archive of the Altai Territory

  • The article presents the experience of working with the documents from the funds of the State Archive of the Altai Territory related to the issue of food supply of the population in the 1960s–1980s

  • The authors conclude that despite the high degree of pursue to the ideology in drawing up texts of documents those period, the enforcing of digital indicators to absolute in accordance with the established Gosplan, one should not exclude the value of the available material in studying topical issues of the food supply system, qualitative level of service and quantitative indicators of product consumption

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Issues of Food Supply of the Population in the 1960s–1980s in the Materials of the State Archive of the Altai Territory. Сметы и штатные расписания финансовых учреждений и промышленных предприятий городов края освещают степень их взаимосвязи с торговыми организациями, структуру и уровень развития городских отделов торговли плодоовощными и пищевыми товарами, как следствие, организацию розничной торговой сети. Показатели пищевой промышленности и результаты деятельности предприятий общественного питания рассматриваются с экономической точки зрения в отрыве от личного потребления и спроса, что определило низкую изученность качества жизни населения в рамках истории повседневности.

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