I've heard a lot about rationing and the entry of women into the workforce in America, enduring the blitz (and rationing) in Britain, rationing and preparing for invasion in Japan, and the progress of ever-more-pervasive propaganda and the advent of Total war in Germany as the facade of the invincible third reich cracked.
But I know little of the home front in Soviet Russia. How were displaced civilians treated; what were the cities created or grown from displaced civilians and transported industrial equipment like? How severe was rationing during the different periods of the war? And what was the post-war period like with vast casualties, the return of enormous numbers of victorious, experienced soldiers?
Hey, can't answer all your questions but since I am working around the Siege of Leningrad I can answer a few that I have encounterd in my research:
About the evacuation of civilians from the frontlines it seems people where reluctant to do that, because of bad treatment in the destination regions or because they had no social contacts in that region. Also the evacuation was based on how much you where worth for the war effort, so skilled laborers where preferably evacuated first.
About the rationing, it was based on how much you provided to the war effort, Soldiers had the most, and after that ofcourse the workers at industrial plants directly influancing the War Effort (Tanks, Airplanes, ...). Ofcourse the more higher up you where, or contacts you had in the higher echelons of power, the bigger rations you could get.
Sources:
GOURE, L., The Siege of Leningrad, Stanford en London, 1962. KIRCHENBAUM, L.A., The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995, Cambridge e.a., 2006.