Structure of industrial society in Soviet Russia in the second half of the XX century: to the problem statement

The relevance of the research is connected with the need to solve the scientific problem of a systematic understanding of the social structure of Russian society in the 1950s-1980s. In this context, the topic of the social structure of production teams, which were the most important institution of the economic system of the USSR, is currently practically unexplored. The aim of the research is to formulate the main problematic issues related to the study of the historical processes of formation and development of the social structure of production teams in Russia during this period. Production teams are considered as production societies, characterized by their inherent system of internal relations and included in higher-order systems of relations. A wide body of sources is used as the source base of the research, including archival materials introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. As a result, a number of theses have been formulated, further development of which is important for studying the problem posed: on the polystructural nature of the social structure of production units, the influence of the informal system of checks and balances in the party-economic management of enterprises, the peculiarities of the functioning of the Soviet economic system, the heterogeneity of industrial enterprises according to various criteria.