Реорганизация системы военного управления СССР 1945 – 1947 гг.

Abstract

The article deals with the reorganization of the system of higher military control of the Soviet Union in the first two years after the end of the World War II. The author on the basis of the documentary reveals the inside and foreign policy reasons for reforming the armed forces of the USSR. Foreign policy reasons were the beginning of the Cold War. The internal causes are the condition of the entire military machine of the Soviet Union. Transition of the army to the peacetime conditions revealed serious shortcomings in a military training and in a technical equipment. Besides, the emergency controls created during the war did not meet the requirements of peace. At that time, it became necessary to merge the People's Commissariat of Defense and the People's Commissariat of the Navy in a Commissariat (later the Ministry) of the Armed Forces. Until 1947 it was headed by I.V. Stalin, then by N.A. Bulganin. Such a merger was due to the country's transition to a peaceful period and re-equipment and refurbishment of the Soviet Army with new modern weapons.