THE PROBLEM OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF COMPETENCES BETWEEN THE INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH-UKRAINIAN AND NORTH- CRIMEAN CANALS (1950–1953)

Abstract

The article has been devoted to the research of the problem of distribution of competences between the party and government agencies in USSR in the process of administrative support of the building of Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimea channels during the years of 1950–1953. Vertically integrated and command-administrative system of management in USSR in the late Stalinist period did not enable the possibility for the rational split of functions between the agencies of the government as well as the management for the effective realizing of projects. That is why the major role in the large-scale building on the territory of Ukrainian SSR (until 1954) and on the Crimea territory had the initiative of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Ukraine (KPU) and the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, particularly in the staffing required for the building of Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimea channels. Using the significant achievements in the realization of its initiative, the management of USSR was trying to consolidate a number of competences on the basis of the normative acts of the agencies of the management of USSR, which were supposed to ensure the dissemination of its power in the Crimea territory of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and to enable the gaining of considerable autonomy from the Union leadership when making the governmental decisions.