The problems of preparation of economic reform of 1947 (on the materials of Krasnoyarsk region)

The study is based on Krasnoyarsk Region archive documents and peri- odicals, and it reveals the problems caused by the transition from rationing (card) system to free trade after the Great Patriotic War reveal, preparatory work of party and Soviet bodies for the implementation of December 1947 resolution of the party and government is analyzed. Designated reform of the sphere of the address of goods became the continuation of the actions of the government directed on the stabilization of financial and economic sys- tem destroyed in the years of war and implementation of social slogans con- cerning social and uniform population. The need of cancellation of distribu- tive system was caused by that in post-war space it promptly lost former ef- ficiency to what repeated increase of number of thefts and plunders in the system of card distribution testify; actual redistribution of funds of food and industrial goods in favor of administrative and trade and supplying person- nel; the increase of the protest among the population; the growth of the black market including both small speculative operations, and large-scale swindles...