The Soviet Famine of 1946–1947, the Weather and Human Agency in Historical Perspective
Abstract This article considers the famine of the immediate post-war period of 1946–1947 in relation to the food problems experienced by the USSR in World War II and to the impact of the weather conditions from 1941. It is argued that the timing and nature of the extreme food problems experienced in this famine conform to a general pattern of Soviet famines in which urban food supply problems over a number of years give rise to increasing pressure on the peasantry and a general reduction of stocks, which when complicated by drought and harvest failure produces a rural famine.
Russia after the war : hopes, illusions, and disappointments, 1945-1957
Part 1 Survival Strategy: The Social-Psychological Impact of the War Victory and the Victors "What Will Life be Like After the War?" - Expectation vs. Reality Hungry Years - Popular Methods During the Famine of 1946-47 Currency Reform - the View from Above and Below. Part 2 Illusions of Liberalization: The Peasantry and Collective Agriculture - Anti-Kolkhoz Attitudes in the Countryside Religion and Politics - the Revival of Religious Feeling Popular Political Attitudes, 1945-48 "Something Has to be Done" - Attitudes Among the Intelligentsia and Independent Thinkers. Part 3 Repressions: "Situation Unchanged" - the Crisis of Post-Victory Expectations The Appearance of an Anti-Stalinist Youth Movement Mechanisms of Struggle Against Dissent A Wave of Repression, 1949-53 "Who is Guilty?" "What is Wrong?" - the Evolution of Mass Consciousness. Part 4 The Thaw: "Without Stalin" - the Change of Atmosphere Renouncing the Gulag The Turn to the Individual The Decisions About the Cult of Personality and Their Influence on the Society Public Opinion and the "Hungarian Syndrome" Instead of a Conclusion - Society, the Regime and Reforms.
Frank Must Marry Money: Men, Women, and Property in Trollope's Novels
There is a continuing debate about the extent to which women in the 19th century were involved in economic life. The paper uses a reading of a number of novels by the English author Anthony Trollop...