Organization of fighter battalions and their activities during the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article examines the organization of fighter battalions and their activities during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the role of the Soviet and party bodies in ensuring public security in the front line and in the rear areas of the USSR when using voluntary formations. The history of the creation and deployment of fighter battalions as effective forms of popular mobilization in the rear, for the effective fight against German intelligence, which intensified during the period of the enemy's offensive along the entire front line, has been revealed. The content of organizational and pedagogical technology for training the distribution of workers in deficient professions and specialties in the school system of factory apprenticeships has been revealed. The directions and content of the ideological work of the state, focused on the working people of the rear, have been examined. The problemthematic field of this article has been investigated both using the information array of the central authorities and using the historiographic material of the local territorial-administrative unit of the former USSR - the South Osetian Autonomous Region. The problem-thematic field addressed in this article was examined not only based on data from central government bodies, but also for the first time using historiographical materials from the central archive of South Ossetia - a territorial-administrative unit of the former USSR.