Prescriptive Mechanisms of Military-Socium Everyday-Life Regulation (Case study: the Workers´ and Peasants´ Red Army in 1941-1945)

Abstract


 This paper deals with the problem of centralized management of everyday life of the Red Army during World War II. The paper considers the role and interaction of the Soviet Union supreme bodies of state and military power in regulating the daily routine of the army, analyses the features of the organization of both spiritual and material facets of the frontline everyday life, and identifies the role of personality factors in the management of the daily life of the Red Army in 1941—1945.