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Legal Regulation оf the Volunteer Movement During the Great Patriotic War
Article by Doctor of Historical Sciences A.Yu. Bezugolny is devoted to the analysis of the development of the legislative framework for the volunteer movement during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the practices of its implementation. Consideration of the historiography of the issue showed that this topic has not been suffi ciently studied in Russian history. The article is written on the materials of the rule-making of the war era (decrees of the State Defense Committee, the Council of People's Commissars of
the USSR, decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR), as well as clerical materials related to the implementation of legislative measures. It is shown that on the eve of the war, with the ex ception of the category of extra-conscripts (professional soldiers who remained in military service after the end of military service), the voluntary principle of manning the armed forces was not provided for by law. Therefore, the state had to form an appropriate legislative framework from the first days of the war in order to bring into the legal fi eld tens of thousands of citizens who voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and other paramilitary formations. Gradually, the volunteers were equalized in rights with the Red Army. The legal status of long-term servicemen, another type of volunteers widely represented in the pre-war Red Army, did not change signifi cantly during the war years, with the exception
of the abolition of the term of service until the end of the war.
the USSR, decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR), as well as clerical materials related to the implementation of legislative measures. It is shown that on the eve of the war, with the ex ception of the category of extra-conscripts (professional soldiers who remained in military service after the end of military service), the voluntary principle of manning the armed forces was not provided for by law. Therefore, the state had to form an appropriate legislative framework from the first days of the war in order to bring into the legal fi eld tens of thousands of citizens who voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and other paramilitary formations. Gradually, the volunteers were equalized in rights with the Red Army. The legal status of long-term servicemen, another type of volunteers widely represented in the pre-war Red Army, did not change signifi cantly during the war years, with the exception
of the abolition of the term of service until the end of the war.
The Great Patriotic War, the volunteer movement, the people's militia, the superannuated clergy