Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate in the Saratov governorate: Social and political practice (1920s)

Abstract

Using the example of the Saratov governorate, the activity of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspectorate bodies aimed at finding the optimal model of control organization in a Soviet-type society is investigated. Techniques and methods directly or indirectly related to the involvement of workers in this work are analyzed on the material of archival sources. It is shown to what extent this practice corresponded to the course of the party and the government to attract citizens to the governance of the state. The article examines how the people’s control bodies influenced the implementation of plans and tasks, fought for increasing the efficiency of public production, economical spending of labor, material resources, and money in the 20s of the twentieth century.

Keywords

• soviet power
• saratov governorate
• control
• rationalization
• inspection