LABOR DAYS OF NORTH OSSETIA DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941‑1945
Sekinaev, Soslan A.
Kavkaz Forum. 2020. Issue 2.
Abstract:
Study of the history of the Great Patriotic War, as a rule, focuses on heroics
− battles, glorious warriors. Much less research attention was paid to military
everyday life and the working days of the rear. The relevance of this issue
today is accounted for by numerous attempts to falsify the history of the war.
Unfortunately, the topic of the rear under the occupation of certain regions began
to be used in provocative projects aimed at inciting ethnic hatred. Partisanship
and politicization of such research is confirmed by numerous copies of individual
«works» to blacken the country’s contribution to the victory of the peoples. It is
necessary to resist such attempts from the standpoint of academic science. This
article discusses the labor processes that took place in the rear of the hostilities
in North Ossetia: the general mobilization of the working population to help the
front, the activities of industrial enterprises in the republic. The questions raised,
to one degree or another, were reflected in Soviet historiography, but many
events and phenomena that have fallen on the periphery of research attention
need analysis or rethinking. This article for the first time introduces into scientific
circulation new sources − materials from the periodical press of the war years:
the republican newspaper «Socialist Ossetia», as well as the factory newspapers
«On the Rails» and «Electrozinc Worker «, which significantly complement the
prevailing ideas about the life of the rear − a well-organized economic, sociopolitical
and cultural space, with the help of which it was possible to stop the
enemy from seizing the capital − the city of Ordzhonikidze, and further advance
the German army in Transcaucasia.
Keywords: USSR, World War II, Caucasus, North Ossetia, rear, defense of Vladikavkaz
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