The activity of the Burcentrkompom in the middle of 1920s

The article covers the activities of the Buryat-Mongolian Central Committee for Assistance to War invalids, sick and wounded Red Army soldiers and families, who members died in the war (Burtsentrkompom), formed at the end of October 1923 in the Verkh- neudinsk. On the basis of a wide range of legislative and record-keeping sources, the authors examine the history of the formation of the Soviet centralized social security system, within which support for military personnel and their families was developed. Following the requirements of the Decree of December 22, 1924, Burtsentrkompom became an analogue of the All-Russian Committee within the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic with a clear hierarchy, subordination and delimitation of competences, but with a large share of independence, expressed in the financial and organizational- working activities of the branches. The formation and development of the work of the committee was carried out in extremely difficult socio-economic and political conditions of the post-war period, the first experience of nation-building in Buryatia, a number of reorganizations in the middle-late 1920s. and open rejection of his activities by a number of public and government structures. In these conditions, the committee not only withstood, but also expanded its assistance to those in need, which testified to the viability of this form of social assistance, but at the turn of the 1920s-1930s. The committee, according to the authorities, has exhausted its possibilities, having turned into a society that is clearly inscribed in the structure of the RSFRS social security system.