Soviet State and Society, 1945-1957

FAIN: FA-12316-78

Aleksandr M. Nekrich
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)

To analyze political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Soviet society from the end of WWII to the formation of the new, consolidated Soviet leadership in 1955-57. Principal problems to be investigated are: (a) official attempts to weld the USSR's minority groupings into a homogeneous mass, (b) signs of governmental crisis (c) repressive policy in the fields of culture and science (d) leadership problems after Stalin's death.