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Contents 1 The defence economy of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War 1.1 On the eve of the patriotic war 1.2 Bases of the defence economy of the USSR 1.3 Reform of national economy 1.4 The expanded reproduction 1.5 Industrial evacuation 1.6 Labour evacuation 1.7 The restoration of economy in the course of war 1.8 Balance of national economy 1.9 Industry and defence economy 1.10 Agriculture and foodstuffs 1.11 Transport and the organisation of the transportation 1.12 Organisation of labour and wages 1.13 Commodity turnover and price 1.14 Budget, credit and money 1.15 Planning production 1.16 Expenses and the loss of national economy 1.17 The economic victory of socialism? 1.18 The post-war socialist economy 1.19 References 1.20 Sources

[edit] The defence economy of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War

[edit] On the eve of the patriotic war

[edit] Bases of the defence economy of the USSR

[edit] Reform of national economy

[edit] The expanded reproduction

[edit] Industrial evacuation

Industrial evacuation in Soviet Union was one of the least known and heralded achievements of the Second World War. Although it begun almost immediately with the commencement of hostilities, the fast tempo of advance by the Axis made some losses inevitable, and much was destroyed to prevent its use by the enemy.

The scale of evacuation was enormous, with 1500 factories dismantled and shipped eastwards along four principal routes: Caucasus, Central Asian, Ural and Siberian. By early 1942 1200 of these plants were not only able to achieve pre-war production scales, but even increase production in some cases. As an example, the 1940 munitions production of 62-63 million tons was dwarfed by the quadrupled production of 1942, producing twice the munitions of the Third Reich and its European contractors. This was despite the primitive conditions in which many of the production facilities existed, with many workers living in earthen dugouts for the first year or more after the evacuation.

The evacuation of the industries has been identified by the new productions cntres, and their principal lines of rail communication as:

• Caucasian - 226 factories evacuated to the Baku region along the Trans-Caucasian Railway. A new rail line was built during the war connecting Baku - Astrakhan - Guryev - Orsk (Orenburg).

• Central Asian - 308 factories evacuated using the Central-Asian Railway connecting Moscow - Kuybishev - Orsk/Guryev section of Trans-Caucasian Line - Tashkent
• Central Asian - Kazakhstan Railway line was also used for evacuation to the Balkhash Lake region and Karaganda via Magnitogorsk

• Siberian - 322 factories evacuated along the Trans-Siberian Railway connecting Moscow - Kuybishev - Magnitogorsk - Chelyabinsk - Omsk - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Chita - Khabarovsk

• Urals - 667 factories were evacuate to the Urals cia the Moscow - Gorky - Kazan - Sverdlovsk line that also had an Omsk connection.

New rail was laid to connect Murmansk with Arkhangelsk to compensate for the line cut by Finland's advance in Karelia. This was the primary railway communication for delivering Lend-Lease from Murmansk convoys.
This line was connected with another new line running to Kotlas and from there to the northern Siberian taiga, built in atrocious weather and environment to ensure delivery of much needed resources.
A special "Stalingrad" line was laid by the railway troops in a record time that eventually connected the Moscow - Kuybishev line, and later extended to the Kazan interchange of the Central-Asian Railway Line.

[edit] Labour evacuation

[edit] The restoration of economy in the course of war

[edit] Balance of national economy

[edit] Industry and defence economy

[edit] Agriculture and foodstuffs

[edit] Transport and the organisation of the transportation

[edit] Organisation of labour and wages

[edit] Commodity turnover and price

[edit] Budget, credit and money

[edit] Planning production

[edit] Expenses and the loss of national economy

[edit] The economic victory of socialism?

[edit] The post-war socialist economy

[edit] References

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[edit] Sources