Local activities of the Vremya League: on the example of the Western Front of the Red Army and Crimea in the 1920s

Abstract

This article is devoted to the activities of the Vremya League in the field. The Vremya League was a public organization established in 1923 in the USSR with the support of the founder of the scientific labor organization, P.M. Kerzhentsev, and dealing with the problem of time in production, management and everyday life. The growth of the organization increased very rapidly, and soon League cells began to appear in various places of the Soviet Union, both in the military and civilian spheres. The importance of studying the League’s activities on the ground is because these issues have not yet been given due attention in historiography. The article examines the process of creating the Vremya League in the units of the Red Army of the Western Front. The minutes of the meetings where the issues of joining the Vremya League of various military figures and other issues related to organizational issues were discussed are being considered. The process of creating the “Regulations on the organizations of the Vremya League in the units of the Red Army of the Western Front”. It also describes the activities of the Vremya League in Crimea, in cities such as Simferopol, Sevastopol, and Feodosia. About what innovations the Crimeans have brought to the activities of the Vremya League.