State Arbitration in the Pre-War Years (Based on Materials of the Arbitration Journal, 1937, No. 1-24; 1938, No. 4, 6, 7, 8, 11-12, 20, 23; 1939, No. 1-24)

Based on the analysis of a number of materials published in the journal “Arbitration” (the body of the State Arbitration under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR) in the pre-war years, the author in the article seeks to show what the bodies of state and departmental (the largest People’s Commissariats) arbitrations lived and breathed in difficult times for the country 1937–1939, and, therefore, partly the economy of a huge country.