CLASSIFIED MOBILIZATION RECORDS MANAGEMENT IN THE USSR DURING THE PRE-WAR DECADE

The study of the history of mobilization training in the interwar period in the USSR remains highly relevant.One of the achievements of Soviet mobilization training was the formation of a system of secret mobilization records managementin civilian institutions, organizations, and enterprises. The article is aimed at conducting a comparative analysis ofpreviously unstudied instructions on classifi ed mobilization records management in the Soviet city and district executivecommittees during the 1930s and early 1940s. The analyzed documents help to form a picture of the regulations for ensuringthe secrecy of mobilization records management in the said period. The article substantiated the conclusions that classifi edmobilization records management was part of the Soviet nationwide mobilization training system and developed during thepre-war decade, refl ecting the changes of this system. In 1930, the fi rst-of-its-kind “framework” instruction on classifi ed mobilizationpaper management in civil institutions and organizations was developed. The experience of the pre-war decade madeit possible to develop a representative documentation management procedure that corresponded to the country’s system ofmobilization training formed by the early 1940s. The article traces changes in the regulations and techniques of classifi ed mobilization paper management, and the requirements for its organization, employees and their functions. It also identifi es the main directions and trends in the development of the national mobilization training system in the dynamics of the pre-war decade.

mobilization training in the USSR, classifi ed mobilization records management, district and city executive committees