Alexander V. Shalak
The Food Supply Problem and the Ways Overcoming it in Eastern Siberia in the 1940s,
in: Ekonomicheskaja istorija. Ezhegodnik (Economic Hystory. Yearbook). 2002, Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2003, p.320-342.

Summary
The author researches the food supply problem in Eastern Siberia in the 1940s, during one of the most crucial periods of Soviet history. The research is based on numerous archival documents. They elucidate such aspects of food supply control as decentralization of storage, development of small farms attached to enterprises, government and public organizations, encouragement of private and collective vegetable gardening, hunting and fishing, as well as the development of local marketplaces. The article also analyses the policy of central and local administration in connection with food supply control.

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