Stalin's Anxious Elites: Postwar Party Rule in the USSR

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel offers three papers highlighting new, unpublished archival research on postwar Stalinism (1945-1953). Together, they foreground the dilemmas of party rule and administration in a broad survey focusing on individual case studies drawn both from the center of the USSR and its periphery. Each paper is also revisionist, proposing major correctives to the developing literature on the period.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, since 1924

Chair

• James W. Heinzen, Rowan U

Papers

• Substate Dictators: Checks and Balances after the War - Yoram Gorlizki, U of Manchester (UK)

• Crushed Hopes of Reform: A.A. Kuznetsov and Leningrad Party Leaders - Kirill Boldovskiy, St. Petersburg Institute, RAS (Russia)

• Making Sense of the Gosplan Affair and the Fall of N. A. Voznesenskii - David Brandenberger, U of Richmond

Discussant

• Cynthia Vickery Hooper, College of the Holy Cross

Session Manager

• Laura Short, ASEEES