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

Shaun Morcom

Europe-Asia Studies, 2016, vol. 68, issue 2, 312-344

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1112877

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