The workers' labor activity in the military-industrial complex of Udmurtia in 1945-1956

The article deals with the most widespread form of labor activity among workers - the socialist competition, the conditions of its emergence, the principles and problems of its organization in 1945-1956. The place and role of this phenomenon in the system of production relations are also identified, its main results and indicators are determined. The aim of this paper is to analyze the labor activity of workers in the military-industrial complex of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the postwar period, to identify the forms and directions of this activity, its results. The experience of carrying out socialist competition in the defense enterprises of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the postwar period is investigated on the basis of archival sources from the Central State Archive of the Udmurt Republic and the Center for Documentation of Contemporary History of the Udmurt Republic. A set of general scientific and special-historical methods are used. It is necessary to distinguish narrative and systemic methods among them. As a result, the author showed that the military-industrial complex located in the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic took an active part in the socialist competition that covered all areas of Soviet society after the war, and achieved significant results. The saved funds and materials were sent for the restoration of the western regions of the country and for the development of the Soviet atomic project. In the course of the research, the author comes to a conclusion that for the working class of Udmurtia, the postwar socialist competition was of a mass character: the number of Stakhanovites and rationalizers increased; along with general factory and departmental employment, individual social obligations were accepted. Among the shortcomings of the postwar socialist competition, which was unfolded at the defense enterprises of Udmurtia, it is necessary to note formalism and bureaucracy, falsification of results, and absence of a single coordinating center. The author points out the leading role of the CPSU (B) in the development of social competition. The political line of the CPSU (B) in the field of labor activity of workers in the defense industry made it possible to compensate the shortage of material, financial and labor resources of the postwar period. The author concludes that this policy contributed to the rapid recovery and development of the economic potential of both the industry and the country as a whole.

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