Researchers on peculiarities of government policy in relation to the ural defense industry in the early ХХ century

Abstract

The problem of government policy in relation to the Ural defense industry in
the early ХХ century is sufficiently completely described in the historic literature.
However, there were no historiographical works devoted to this topic at the time.
Consequently the main tasks of the article are the following: giving an analysis of
the level of knowledge of the problem in total, assessment of different approaches
and points of view in scientific works of soviet and post-soviet times, determination
of their historiographical value. Another important task of the work is to show the
way the historians assess the role and place of government in the issue of foreign
funds in modernization of defense industry on the example of Motovilikhinsk
Plants. For this purpose the author gives an analysis of the polemics which rose in
journalism and historic literature on the role of foreign firms in modernization of
military plants. In the end of the article the author makes a conclusion that the level
of the Ural defense industry development was significant and most of historians
are joint in this matter and the government policy bore protectionist character in
relation to the Ural defense industry.