Problems of planning and production of armored vehicles in the USSR in the post -war period 1945-1953 (according to Gosplan documents). Part 1

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, the tank industry, like other military branches of the Soviet economy, experienced a period of reorganization and technological restructuring. The central problem facing the military economy in the second half of the 1940s was a change in approaches to the production process and product quality assessment, and a more rational use of available resources. The solution of this problem, according to the author, depended on the results of bureaucratic interactions between the ministries of economy, the State Planning Commission (Gosplan) and government structures - the operational bureaus of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. In addition, the personal qualities of Soviet leaders, such as V.A. Malyshev, N.A. Voznesensky, L.P. Beria, played an important role in solving the issues of planning and production of armored vehicles.