CLOTHING AS COMPONENT OF RED ARMY EVERYDAY LIFE IN 1941-1945
- Authors: Larionov AE1
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University of Tourism and Services Studies
- Issue: No 3 (2014)
- Pages: 81-90
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/4039
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Abstract
This article is devoted to the creature comforts of a field army during the Great Patriotic War. Clothing is characterized and analyzed from the perspective of everyday life forces. Observed dynamic changes uniforms, unlike the formal statutory requirements and frontline realities concluded the dialectical character of the material faces everyday life forces that combined formal- organized and spontaneous moments. The article as a description of the material combines facets of everyday front of the Red Army and its analysis based on the use of sources of personal origin and archival documents, including previously unpublished. During the analysis, the amount of historical facts, the author comes to the conclusion that the relationship that face the front of her everyday life with other parties, as well as macro-historical processes in the Great Patriotic War. While wearing military uniforms realities often reflected not so much the statutory requirements as the need to adapt to society representatives militarnogo harsh conditions of total war. Simultaneously change the appearance of the Red Army soldiers on the basis of the directives of the military and political leadership of the Soviet Union reflected the dynamics of ideological and political power fluctuations official rate.
About the authors
A E Larionov
Russian State University of Tourism and Services Studies
Email: allar71@yandex.ru
Department of History, Political Science and Public Relations