The military commissariats of the Irkutsk region after the Second World War: problems of daily activities
The purpose of this article is to consider the specifics of the military commissariats of the USSR in the postwar period on the data of the Irkutsk region. The external background is described in details: the general characteristics of military construction - the scale and progress of army reduction, structural reforms in Eastern Siberia. The basis of the ranks of the Soviet Army were conscripts of 1926-1927 mobilized in 1944, and the calls resumed only from the beginning of 1949. Author defined the level of historiographical understanding of the Stalin's regime and overall issues of demobilization. The peculiarity of the first postwar years in comparison with other periods instead of conscription activities as the priority for military enlistment offices were the issues of office-debugging of accounting for military-trained reserves. In daily activities of the military commissariats in Irkutsk region there are delineated six problems: the organization of Party-political and ideological work with the officers of the military commissariats and among recruits by the efforts of the commissariat staffs; shortcomings in the preparation and organization of conscription, the differences of the credentials, the randomness of the data files, the failure of recruitment in military schools; exchange of the personal military documents of soldiers, sergeants and officers of the reserve; awarding veterans and giving the permanent order's documents instead of temporal certificates; assistance to families of fallen warriors, invalid veterans and active military personnel, retirement processing; misconduct by officers of the military and “immoral behavior”. Strongly criticized was the fascination with the personal subsidiary economy.