centralization

The main directions (decentralization and centralization) and specific forms of reorganization of agricultural management bodies as an element of the new state agrarian policy in 1953–1964, their practical implementation in the Byelorussian SSR are considered. It is noted that the most significant changes occurred at the district level as the closest to the direct business entities.

The submitted article is original research of the features of the industrial development of the Saratov region during the Second Five-Year Plan. The author examines the branch structure of industry in the region, particularly of the directive model of industrial modernization on the basis of new archival data using the modern methodological principles.