Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1983. 279 p. The monograph of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor G. D. Komkov (Nauka Publishing House) is devoted to the study of one of the most important aspects of the CPSU's activities during the Great Patriotic War. It is well known that the war of the world's first socialist state against fascist Germany was of an acute class character. It was conducted both by force of arms and by force of ideas. In this struggle, the Soviet Union won not only a military victory, but also a moral and political one. Soviet historiography has a considerable number of works devoted to the party's activities on the ideological front. However, many of them are either local in nature or limited by chronological boundaries. In this respect, G. D. Komkov's research differs markedly from the previous ones. The author has set himself the goal of summarizing the many-sided activities of the Communist Party during the war period and broadly showing the main directions of educational work among home front workers. The book is written on a solid source base. The documents of the Central Administration of the IML under the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Central State Administration of the USSR, the Archive of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, and the Archive of the All-Union Central Committee were widely used. Valuable data on the work of party organizations were extracted from regional archives: MK and MGK of the CPSU, Kuibyshev, Ivanovo, Sverdlovsk and others. The periodical press of the war years, as well as domestic and foreign publications, has been thoroughly studied. The book begins with a discussion of the moral and political preparation of the Soviet people for the defense of the socialist Fatherland in the pre-war years. The party's activities aimed at strengthening the ideological education of the working masses are described convincingly and with the use of a large amount of factual material. During this period, the party continued to improve t ... Читать далее