Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University320210.18287/2542-0445-2012-18-3/2-67-76UnknownRUSSIAN STATE AUTHORITIES DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (1941-1945): A PHENOMENON OF PREHISTORIOGRAPHICAL STAGEFilimonovaE. N.morenov.sv@ssau.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097the Dept. of National History and Historiography, Samara State University, Samara, 443011, Russian Federation.02032012183/267760102201701022017Copyright © 2012, Filimonova E.N.2012<p>The article discusses the formation of historiographical study of the preconditions of study of public authorities of USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in the national historical scholarship of 1940s - early 1950s. Political and journalistic work on the activities of government authorities were directly involved in the process of public administration and served primarily ideological functions. They are viewed as a logical prehistoriographical phase, during which they develop the necessary cognitive prerequisites for transition to in-depth scientific research of problems at subsequent stages of historiography.</p>historiography of the Great Patriotic Warhistoriography of activity of the state authoritieshistoriography of the Sovietsисториография Великой Отечественной войныисториография деятельности государственных органов властиисториография Советов