Cultural, educational and ideological work among foreign specialists and workers at industrial plants in Stalingrad in the late 1920's - 1930's

The article describes the work of the soviet governmental authorities and party organs among foreign specialists and workers arrived in Stalingrad in the late 1920s - 1930s for technical reconstruction of operating enterprises and construction of new ones (the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, the metallurgical works “Red October” and engineering works "Barricady”). For the purpose of foreigners' effective adaptation, increment in political and working activity, forming of communist ideology and diversion of attention from difficult living conditions in Stalingrad party and trade union organizations conducted active ideological, cultural and educational work. On the basis of archive documents as well as the Stalingrad Tractor Plant's newspaper "Dajosh' Traktor” the following conclusions were drawn: on ideological, cultural and educational work among foreigners, labored at the biggest industrial plants in Stalingrad, high emphasis was placed. One of the ways of invited specialists and workers' rapid integration in Soviet society was their active attraction to socio-political life. Nevertheless, in practice variety of central and local authorities' directives on the work with foreigners were implemented just partly. The main reasons were: defects of party and trade union organizations and unwillingness of foreign specialists and workers to dissolve in Soviet society, most of them planned to return home at the first opportunity.