Moscow, MSU Publishing House, 1975, 189 p. The print run is 2210. The price is 90 kopecks. The study of political institutions in pre-revolutionary Russia is one of the most pressing problems of historical science. This topic is listed among the main areas of research work of the Institute of the History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, defined in the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU1 . The monograph by MSU History teacher S. V. Voronkova is the first special study of the Special Conference on State Defense, which was established by law on August 17, 1915 and was one of the main political institutions of Russia during the First World War, the central body of the system of military and economic regulation of the country's economy. The author focuses on the documentary materials of the Fund of the Special Conference on Defense, which for a number of reasons are stored in several archives: the Central State Archive of the USSR, the Central State Archive of the USSR, the Archive of the Military History Museum of Artillery, Engineering Troops and Signal Troops. So far, few works have been created devoted to the study of archival complexes of documents of pre-revolutionary institutions of Russia .21 Voprosy Istorii, 1969, No. 4, p. 4. 2 L. E. Shepelev. Private capitalist commercial and industrial enterprises of Russia in the late XIX-early XX centuries and their archival funds. "Information Bulletin of the State Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR", 1958, vol. 10. Archive funds of joint-stock commercial banks. "Problems of source studies", Vol. VII. L. 1959; L. V. Vinogradova. Main types of ce documents- page 154 The documents of the Special Conference on Defense were widely used in the development of various problems of the history of Russia at the beginning of the XX century in connection with the study of its economic policy during the First World War, the mobilization of industry for military needs, the char ... Читать далее