Procurement in the field of military property: to the activities of the Russian Supply Committee in America in 1917
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-4-59-64
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Abstract
In the article has been attempted to consider the position of the Russian Supply Committee in America, the problems and the state of its structural units during the significant 1917 year of last active cooperation with the Allied powers in military procurement during the First World War. As the Russian Supply Committee is currently presented fragmentally in the scientific historical literature, the author has identified the following purpose of this article — to reduce and expand the available material on the activities of the Russian Supply Committee into a unified picture, paying special attention to the perception of its activities in the American press, the problem of transportation, the issue of the introduction of liquidation policy in relation to purchase order, efforts to purchase transport property. The article is written on the basis of unpublished sources (materials of the office work of the Russian Supply Committee, correspondence of General N. M. Khrabrov with the Main Directorate for Foreign Supply and the authorized Ambassador from the Russian government B. A. Bakhmetyev, orders and instructions of the Main Directorate for Foreign Supply, materials of the Special Investigative Commission) identified in the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive. As a result, the author concluded that in the conditions of political instability and stagnant organizational and structural problems, the Russian Supply Committee could not properly resolve the issue of purchasing military property on the American market.
Keywords
the Russian Supply Committee in America,
military-technical cooperation,
World War I,
transport procurement,
the Main Military-Technical Directorate,
the Main Directorate for Foreign Supplies,
Russian army
Supporting agencies: The article is prepared with the support of the Russian Science Foundation project, 22-78-10036 — «Foreign supplies as a factor in solving transport problems of late imperial Russia: the experience of the First World War», implemented at St. Petersburg State University.
About the Author
V. M. Tarelko
Saint Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tarelko Vladislav Mikhailovich, Research Assistant at the Institute of History
AuthorID (RSCI): 1146913
Saint Petersburg
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Tarelko V.M. Procurement in the field of military property: to the activities of the Russian Supply Committee in America in 1917. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2023;8(4):59-64. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-4-59-64. EDN: DXGDHM
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