Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945–1953

Duskin, J. Eric

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“…J. Eric Duskin (2001), notably, has seen this as a period in which a technocratic 'new elite' was formed in a lasting rationalising turn. Vera Dunham (1976) made a similar argument that the regime actively consolidated the position of a conservative Stalinist 'middle class'.…”

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Enforcing Stalinist Discipline in the Early Years of Post-war Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945–1948

Morcom¹

2016

Europe-Asia Studies

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A distinctive approach to disciplining the Soviet population emerged following the Terror of 1937-1938, and as a consequence of World War II, around the notion of socio-political and socio-economic 'organisation'. The early post-war years as a consequence saw the introduction of innovative means of social disciplining in all areas of Soviet society. The infamous attack on the post-war intelligentsia, in particular, resulted from Stalin's belief that only through the intelligentsia's correct 'leadership' of this socio-economic 'organisation' would the Soviet Union be able to meet its challenges of reconstruction and superpower consolidation. This post-Terror and post-war phase in Stalinism marked a lasting turn, which consolidated the authoritarian socio-political dynamics evident in the later post-Stalin Soviet system.

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Enforcing Stalinist Discipline in the Early Years of Post-war Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945–1948

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2016

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Normalization (1944–1957)

2018

The Soviet Union

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Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism

Filtzer

2002

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Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism is a study of labour and labour policy during the critical period of the Soviet Union's postwar recovery and the last years of Stalin. It is also a detailed social history of the Soviet Union in these years, for non-Russian readers. Using previously inaccessible archival sources, Donald Filtzer describes the tragic hardships faced by workers and their families right after the war; conditions in housing and health care; the special problems of young workers; working conditions within industry; and the tremendous strains which regime policy placed not just on the mass of the population, but on the cohesion and commitment of key institutions within the Stalinist political system, most notably the trade unions and the procuracy. Donald Filtzer's subtle and compelling book will interest all historians of the Soviet Union and of socialism.

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Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New Elite, 1945–1953

Cited by 19 publications

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Enforcing Stalinist Discipline in the Early Years of Post-war Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945–1948

Enforcing Stalinist Discipline in the Early Years of Post-war Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945–1948

Normalization (1944–1957)

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism

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