MILITARY ASPECTS OF SOVIET INDUSTRIAL DISCOURSE (1920S–1930S.)

The article examines the formation of the Soviet public industrial discourse in the
1920s – 1930s. Its main source were various texts, written by the political elite
members. It notes that an expediency of the Soviet industrial project based on
objectives of the military-industrial complex. The «besieged fortress sense» became an
additional factor of the «industrial consensus» in that period. As a result the author
makes the conclusion that the industrial discourse contributed to the mobilization of
the Soviet economy during the great Patriotic war (1941—1945).