Are there any good monographs on post-World War II reconstruction in the Soviet Union?

by pbacon33

I am planning on diving into Anne Applbaum's Iron Curtain on the post-WWII Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. It got me wondering, though - are there any monographs in book or paper form (in English) on Soviet reconstruction post-WWII? Thanks!

kieslowskifan

J. Eric Duskin's Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of A New Elite, 1945-1953 covers how a new technocratic and professional elite emerged out of the war and became the new managers of the Soviet state. Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions and Disappointments, 1945-1957 by Elena Zubkova looks at reconstruction from the bottom-up through the lens of Soviet public opinion. Both works intrinsically deal with the economy and its reconstruction after the German invasion. For raw economic history, Mark Harrison's academia. edu page has a number of papers covering the late Stalinist economy.

Luakey

Everyday Life and the "Reconstruction" of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, 1943-1948 by Jeffrey Jones, From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II by Karls Qualls, and Life and Death Under Stalin: Kalinin Province 1945-1953 by Kees Boterbloem are wondeful studies of reconstruction at the city or provincial level. They provide a great prespective on how regional variations affected how reconstruction played out. Let me know if you need anything else, the postwar Soviet Union is very much by "thing"!