The invalids of the Great Patriotic War in the Urals and their rehabilitation after the War

Abstract

This paper deals with the problems of involving invalids of the Great Patriotic War through rehabilitation in the postwar life of society. It points out that after the Great Patriotic War invalids rehabilitation was a complex of events for employment, professional education, health recovery and social adaptation in the region as well as in the whole country. On the one hand, there were many mechanisms of solving war invalids problems. On the other hand, the government was very active in using administrative and financial resources. The public activities were also invaluable, they included board Trustees, patronage organizations, months, creative institutions of public inspectors. The author has come to the conclusion that the war invalids solved their material and everyday problems and felt their importance and necessity in the society because professional and medical rehabilitation helped them to promote state tasks in solution of making up working resources. However, during Stalinism period the problems of war rehabilitation werent solved in spite of those social practices.