Peculiarities of pension coverage for disabled war veteran and their employment in Tambov Region in 40s and 50s of the 20th century

Abstract

The study of certain aspects of social adaptation and support, pension coverage and employment of disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War allows us to clarify the peculiarities of post-war society development, development trajectories of the socialization of the military generation in the 40–50s of the 20th century. During this period, the efforts of the Soviet and party bodies to organize assistance to disabled war veterans, a significant part of whom had mental injuries and illnesses, were especially significant. Military everyday life and traumatization of combatants led to an increase in morbidity, which required a serious transformation not only of public health, but also of the system of social protection and pension legislation. The most intensive study of this problem was carried out during the war years and the first post-war decades, also in the 20s of the 21s century. The methodological peculiarities of the study of the stated problems are based on the author’s concept of attracting the works of contemporaries, primarily specialists in the field of psychiatry, practitioners of the Tambov Region, as well as the actual case histories and anamnesis of mental illness. We use materials from the state and party archives of the Tambov region, many of which are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The results of the study allow us to draw a quite obvious conclusion that the central and local Soviet and party bodies made certain efforts to organize social support and employment for disabled war veterans. Highly successful, these events on medical and social work were carried out in the Tambov Region. However, in general, the lack of material resources and hardships of the post-war period did not allow for decent pension coverage and social adaptation of disabled war veterans.