Kombinat Murmanskoj zheleznoj dorogi: unikal'nyj eksperiment po resheniyu voprosov oboronosposobnosti zheleznodorozhnogo transporta v usloviyah NEPa

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of the Transport-Industrial-Colonization Combine of the Murmansk Railroad in solving the issues of defense of rail transport in the New economic policy. As a result of the analysis of the complex of archival data, periodicals, normative-legal acts and available historiography the author made conclusions about the uniqueness of this experiment in the system of the forming USSR mobilization planning system. It was noted that the combine's activity was possible due to a number of factors, including a favorable foreign policy situation in the North-West of the USSR, the state budget deficit after the Civil War and the necessity of the Murmansk railroad existence, proved by the Karelian Rebellion of 1921-1922.