The system of economic mobilization planning bodies in the post-war years (1945–1964)

The article examines the history of the development of government agencies for managing the mobilization preparation of the economy and mobilization planning of the national economy of the USSR in the post-war period (1945-1964). If in the first post-war decade the Soviet economy was managed mainly on a sectoral basis, then from the mid-1950s the transition to a territorial management system began, and enterprises began to be transferred from the operational management of the abolished ministries to the subordination of regional councils of the national economy. These reorganizations naturally influenced the development of the system of mobilization bodies. The author comes to the conclusion that, despite numerous experiments on dividing the issues of mobilization preparation and planning between different institutions, eventually the Soviet leadership came to the conclusion about the need to concentrate the subject of mobilization preparation within the framework of one governing body.