Administering the library sector during the Great Patriotic War
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 19:38The author examines the issues of administering the library sector on the territory of the Russian Federation during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) with the focus on the role of the People’s Education Commissariat (Narkompros) in reorganizing the sector of librarianship. The author analyzes the status of libraries during the early war years: the system of library services and library staffing were deteriorating, the libraries were unreasonably closing. The problems of library collections evacuation are accentuated.