Systemic Factors of the USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2025-1-7-39
Abstract
Aim.To identify, based on factor analysis, the most important factors of the USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War as a single mobilization system of the Soviet statehood of the pre-war and wartime.
Methodology.The key method of the study was factor analysis, carried out on the basis of the problematic decomposition of the formation of a single state administration system in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.
Results.The 13 most important systemic factors of the USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War were identified and characterized. The formed system was rethought as a combination of factors expressing the specifics of the Soviet state system and the Russian civilizational model. A conclusion was made about the activation of victory factors under the influence of military threats since 1927 and deactivation in the post-Stalin and post-Soviet periods.
Research implications. The results of the study can be used in the formation of a strategy for increasing the factor potentials of Russia's National Security through the reactivation of the factors of the USSR's victory in the Great Patriotic War. The obtained results can be in demand in educational, upbringing and enlightening work, being updated in the context of the 80th anniversary of the Victory.
Keywords
USSR,
Great Patriotic War,
Victory,
factors,
system,
military alarm,
heroism,
ideology,
management,
Soviet people,
Stalin
About the Author
V. E. Bagdasaryan
Federal State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vardan E. Bagdasaryan – Dr Sci (History), Prof., Dean of the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law
ul. Radio 10A, Moscow 105005
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