To the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1982. 277 p. Victory of the USSR and its Armed Forces in the GO rear over the rear of Nazi Germany. The Great Patriotic War had one thing-a particularly prominent role in achieving the temporary economic victory of the Soviet Union-this victory belonged to the Urals, which page 122 it became the main arsenal of the Red Army. It accounted for 40% of all military production in the USSR .1During the post-war years, Soviet historians did a great deal of research on the contribution of the Ural industry to the creation of economic prerequisites for the defeat of the Nazi invaders. These problems are reflected in general works, as well as in essays on the history of individual regions and autonomous republics of this region and their party organizations, in articles and collections that reveal certain problems of the development of the Ural economy during the war2 . However, until recently there were no generalizing works on the history of industry in the Urals during the Great Patriotic War. Meanwhile, along with the thoroughly studied issues, there were also poorly or even completely unexplored problems of the development of a multi-industry industry in this most important region of the country. The monograph by A. F. Vasiliev, a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Doctor of Historical Sciences, is the first generalizing work on the development of the leading industries of the Urals in their complex, on the labor heroism of the Urals during the war as an integral part of the unprecedented feat of the Soviet people in the name of victory. The author, of course, could not avoid in his work those problems that have already been reflected in the works of other researchers. Without covering these problems, it was impossible to give a general analysis of the development of the Urals industry during the war years as a whole. However, practically when c ... Read more