Open AccessStaff Policy in the Soviet Nuclear Project
Author(s) -
N. S. Melnikova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik rossijskogo fonda fundamentalʹnyh issledovanij. gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki/vestnik rffi. gumanitarnye i obŝestvennye nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-8956
pISSN - 2587-6090
DOI - 10.22204/2587-8956-2020-099-02-39-51
Subject(s) - work (physics) , originality , nuclear industry , quality (philosophy) , order (exchange) , state (computer science) , public relations , political science , business , engineering , law , computer science , finance , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm , nuclear engineering , creativity
The nuclear project greatly influenced the history of Russia. The nuclear industry, emerged as a result of the project implementation, has accumulated enormous expertise of successfully solving serious scientific and industrial challenges in the shortest possible time and with the most efficient concentration of financial, material and labour resources. However, the study materials of quite an extensive history of the project never addressed the human resources. Until recently, matters of staff were considered secondary to the most studied scientific, technical, military and strategic factors of the project. The disproportion explains why the author addresses the topic of staff and staff policy in nuclear industry.
Chronological work is devoted to the period between 1942, when the order of the State Defence Committee “On the Organization of Work with Uranium” was adopted, giving rise to the project, and the end of the 1950s, when the main results were achieved in key areas of state policy in the field of nuclear weapons development. The author studies the evolution of staff policy of the project, i.e. methods, principles, problems and achievements of “nuclear” recruitment. The article shows originality of social and demographic quantity and quality of the staff.
The social group formed as a result of external management is suggested to be considered as a special social professional and territorial community of corporate type. The author describes the characteristics of the community, the specific features of its organization and existence.