M. Voenizdat. 1975. 341 pp. Circulation of 30,000 copies. Price 78 kopecks. National assistance to the front was one of the important factors that decided the victorious outcome of the Great Patriotic War. No researcher dealing with this period could ignore the facts of patriotic aid to the front, mass popular movements to provide material support to the Active Army. This is due not only to the purely practical significance of such assistance, but also to the fact that these facts can almost palpably show the most vivid manifestation of Soviet patriotism, the creative role of our people, and their concern for the fate of the Fatherland. So far, there has been no special study on national assistance to the front. This gap is filled to a certain extent by the book of Zav. Department of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Doctor of Historical Sciences A.M. Sinitsyn. Unlike the authors who focus only on material and financial assistance, A. M. Sinitsyn considers national assistance to the front in the broadest aspect: various forms of military creativity of the masses (fighter battalions, workers ' and communist battalions and regiments, volunteer formations, partisan movement); financial and material assistance of Soviet patriots (the USSR Defense Fund collection of funds for military equipment, subscription to military loans and cash and clothing lotteries, sending gifts to the front, collecting warm clothes); care of home front workers for wounded soldiers and war invalids, families of front-line soldiers and children left without parents. The author traces the process of emergence and development of all these forms of national assistance to the front, finds out their significance in the course of the war. Based on the actual material, he shows that the patriotic movement to help the front covered all layers of Soviet society without exception, all age groups, all nations and nationalities inhabiting the USSR took part in it. ... Читать далее