Материальная и финансовая помощь тыла фронту в годы Великой Отечественной войны (на материалах Кабардино-Балкарии)

Abstract

In the article, based on the analysis of historiography on the study, the problems requiring study are identified, the goals, objectives, and methodology of the study are defined. Based on new ar-chival documents and other sources, the problems of organizing material and financial assistance by enterprises, collective farms, state farms and workers of the rear of the Red Army are analyzed. The main directions, forms and methods of activity of state, party bodies and public organizations in raising funds for the National Defense Fund and purchasing military equipment, subscribing to State military loans, collecting warm clothes and gifts for soldiers and commanders of military units and formations are considered. This article analyzes the motives of the patriotic movement of Soviet citizens aimed at helping the front. It was concluded that the main areas of material and financial assistance to the rear of the Red Army were those that arose at the initiative of the work-ers of the movement: raising funds for the country’s Defense Fund and the purchase of military equipment, subscribing to State military loans, creating a bread fund, collecting warm clothes, gifts for fighters and commanders of military units and formations.