Abstract
The article examines the historical experience of the initial period of mobilization application of various types of retail prices: state list prices, free prices of the collective farm market, commercial (increased) prices of state trade and consumer prices. Based on the formation of prices during the war period of 1941-1945, the analysis of the dynamics and impact of prices on the socio-economic stability and security of the state, the purchasing power of certain types of goods, taking into account the current wages of the population, was carried out.The normative documents on the introduction of ration cards at various stages of the war in state and commercial trade are studied.A comprehensive critical analysis of the application of prices in various segments of the commodity market during the mobilization of 1941-1945 when ration cards had been used was carried out. Retail turnover prices and price indices of state and cooperative trade for basic foodstuffs are considered and analyzed. The analysis of the number of issued food cards for compliance with the actual population revealed their significant discrepancy in the first two years of the war.The results of the study may be in demand in legislative and executive authorities in the formation of pricing policy amidst the mobilization economy at the present stage.FUNDING. The article has been prepared in accordance with the topic of the state task Reg. No. RD 121030500096-5; Reg. No. ICRBS "New challenges and threats to socio-economic security: measures of budgetary and financial regulation".