Dom Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/210/suppl_6.toc good read extract; The story of the Soviet Union’s post-war years appears almost as remarkable as the story of the war.1 The USSR came to victory in 1945 only after first coming close to total defeat. In 1945 the Red Army occupied Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, and Sofia, but behind the army the country lay in ruins. Its people had suffered 25 million premature deaths. The survivors were profoundly weary. Many hoped for reconciliation and relaxation. Despite this, in the years immediately following, the Soviet economy and polity returned quickly to their previous form. There was renewed political and economic mobilization. Economic resilience was reflected in rapid Soviet post-war economic recovery. Political resilience can be seen in Stalin’s rapid consolidation of the political system: there would be no reforms for a decade. The rigid hierarchies of party and state control were not loosened up, but were reinforced while their frontiers were pushed outward to the shores of the Baltic and into Central Europe. What gave the Stalinist political economy its post-war resurgence? I will place the Soviet recovery in a broader European context. The result is a puzzle: across most of Europe there was a clear association between post-war prosperity and economic and social reforms, but not in the Soviet Union. A closer look at Soviet post-war institutions in the late 1940s suggests that if anything they were more centralized, militarized, secretive, and punitive than in the late 1930s. The rapid Soviet economic recovery from World War II becomes less surprising when we take into account the Soviet economy’s very large backlog of unexploited potential, not all of it due to the war. Institutions are still important, though, because ineffective institutions can mean that unexploited potential is never realized. In one respect, unchanged Soviet institutions could operate more … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BRAINPOWER Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 Studied it pretty thoroughly back in school. Interesting nation and interesting history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CallMeSwaggy Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 you're trying to bring an intellectual discussion to a community that can't put together a proper sentence and has to reply with no ask... OT: it was a good read and despite russia's apparent struggles economically Putin is considered the most powerful figure in the world... another interesting thing to note is that russia can supply itself through natural resources unlike a majority of countries in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
موني Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 Putin is a really interesting man, loved by few and hated by many. It's pretty cool thinking about the progression of Russia and then compare previous political figures to Putin. I'm on my phone but I'll post more later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bluewatch Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 Was an interesting read @@dom, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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