Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after World War II

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 12
Terms and abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction: the political imperatives of the postwar recovery......Page 21
1 Rebuilding the workforce: free, slave, and indentured labour......Page 33
The industrial workforce: changing social composition and conjunctural labour shortage......Page 36
The MVD economy......Page 42
Organized recruitment (orgnabor)......Page 49
The Labour Reserve schools......Page 54
Conclusion: the impact of indentured labour on industrial reconstruction......Page 59
Postwar recovery and consumption: analytical problems......Page 61
The price rises and ration cuts of September 1946......Page 65
Conclusion......Page 95
The end of rationing......Page 97
Housing......Page 111
Health care......Page 120
Conclusion......Page 135
Setting the stage: an unhappy komandirovka......Page 137
The Labour Reserve system and Young Workers' Schools......Page 140
Wages and living conditions of young workers......Page 154
Attitudes and reactions......Page 160
Marginalized youth......Page 167
Conclusion......Page 175
5 Labour discipline and criminal law: the futility of repression......Page 178
Labour discipline and the law......Page 179
Labour turnover: profile and composition......Page 187
Enforcement of the anti-quitting laws......Page 196
Flight from the Labour Reserve schools......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 216
Appendix: a note on labour discipline and the railways......Page 218
6 The industrial enterprise: working conditions, work organization, and wage determination......Page 221
The physical environment of the Soviet factory......Page 223
The work regime......Page 233
The use of  work time......Page 243
Wage determination......Page 252
Conclusion......Page 261
Conclusion: labour and the ‘renormalization’ of Stalinist social relations......Page 265
The limits of coercion in the postwar recovery......Page 268
Political consolidation and historical decline......Page 277
ARCHIVES......Page 286
FACTORY NEWSPAPERS......Page 287
BOOKS AND ARTICLES......Page 288
Index......Page 292