Organisational forms and management of light industrial enterprises in the Kaliningrad region in the 1940s — 1970s
- DOI
- 10.5922/vestnikhum-2025-3-6
- Pages
- 65-81
Abstract
Based on materials from the State Archive of the Kaliningrad Region, in particular unpublished meeting protocols, correspondence on industrial issues, reports and proposals of the Department of Light and Food Industry of the Regional Committee of the CPSU, decrees and directives of the Kaliningrad Council of National Economy, and decisions of the Kaliningrad Regional Executive Committee, the article examines the history and development of the management of Soviet light industry enterprises in the Kaliningrad Region. The purpose of the study is to trace and assess the changes associated with the subordination of light industry enterprises in the Kaliningrad Region in the 1940s—1970s. Taking into account nationwide trends and reforms, the trajectory of light industry in the region is considered, from the formation of the region and the restoration of the economic potential of the new Soviet oblast in the second half of the 1940s to the stabilization of the administration of this sector in the 1970s after a series of economic reforms. Documents concerning the establishment and reorganization of agencies that controlled local light industry facilities were identified. On the basis of the analysis of the collected data, the specific features and outcomes of the subordination of light industry enterprises in the Kaliningrad Region were determined. In particular, the problem of the contradictory relationship between local light industry enterprises and the Council of National Economy of the Lithuanian SSR is addressed. It is concluded that the reorganizations of light industry administration in the region did not interrupt the development of this sector in the Amber Region.