The study focuses on the topic that has not been a subject of special research. It is the impact of evacuation processes on economic crime during the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. The article determines the reasons for the increase in crime within the evacuation space, considers the types of economic crimes, and analyses the difficulties in discovering and repressing them. It is concluded that penalties for economic crimes committed under the emergency conditions of evacuation were made tougher but that method of reducing crime was not very effective.
Marina N. Potemkina
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University
Magnitogorsk, Russia
Research Laboratory of Actual History, Russian Presidential Academy
of National Economy and Public Administration
Moscow, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7056-1258
E-mail: mpotemkina@mail.ru
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Keywords:
Great Patriotic War, evacuation processes, legitimacy, economic crime
For citation:
Potemkina, M. “Violations of the Law during the Evacuation of the Population and Industrial Equipment in 1941–1942.” Historia Provinciae – The Journal of Regional History, vol. 4, no. 2 (2020): 307–39, http://doi.org/10.23859/2587-8344-2020-4-2-1