Late Stalinist Russia Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention [Paperback]

The late Stalinist period, long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s, has recently become the focus of much new research by people keen to understand the enormous impact of the war on Soviet society and to understand Soviet life under 'mature socialism'. Written by top scholars from high profile universities, this impressive work brings together much new, cutting edge research on a wide range of aspects of late Stalinist society. Filling a gap in the literature, it focuses above all on the experience of the Soviet people and their interaction with ideology, state policy and national and international politics.

Introduction: Late Stalinist Society: History, Policies and People  Part 1: When the War was Over  1. Population, Politics and Reproduction: Late Stalinism and its Legacy  2. The Bitter Legacy of the Great Patriotic War: Red Army Disabled Soldiers under Late Stalinism  3. Subversive Tales? War Rumours in the Soviet Union 1945-47  Part 2: Barracks, Queues and Private Plots: Post-War Urban and Rural Landscapes  4. Standard of Living versus Quality of Life: Struggling with the Urban Environment in Russia During the Early Years of Post-War Reconstruction  5. Into the Grey Zone : Sham Peasants and the Limits of the Kolkhoz Order in the Post-War Russian Village, 1945-1953  Part 3: The Corrupted State: War and the Rise of the Second Economy  6. A Campaign Spasm: Graft and the Limits of the Campaign against Bribery after the Great Patriotic War  7. A Darker Big Deal: Concealing Party Crimes in the Post-WWII Era  Part 4: New Generations: Identity between the Yesterday of War and the Possibilities of Tomorrow  8. More than Just Stalinists: The Political Sentiments of Victors 1945-195lcG