Social Policy of the Soviet State during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (Based on Materials of the Lower Volga Region)
This article discusses the main directions of social policy by local authorities in the Lower Volga region during the war period. The author shows the features of solving food problem, organizing medical services, protecting motherhood and childhood and other policies aimed at certain categories of the Lower Volga region population: military servants families, the evacuated and disabled veterans. Despite shortcomings in the local authorities work, caused by wartime conditions, the major social problems of the regions population were generally solved.