Communists and the Russians : the Kalinin Province under Stalin

• Main Author: Boterbloem, Cornelis N.
• Other Authors: Boss, U. J. (advisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: McGill University 1994
• Subjects: Tverskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Russia) > History
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41546

This history of the Tver (Kalinin) province of Russia, with particular emphasis on the years: 1945-1953, uses primary sources from archives of the Party and Soviet State, oral interviews, and readings of Russian, French, English, and German publications. The first chapters discuss the socio-economic and political effects of the events prior to 1945. Subsequently, the post-war role of Communist Party, Soviet government, security organs, and Komsomol and the results of Communist policies in agriculture and industry are analysed. The province's demographic losses between 1929 and 1945 and their consequences in Stalin's final years are assessed. The life of male and female kolkhozniks, workers, and intelligentsia, and their relationship with the authorities are depicted. Post-1953 changes are appreciated in the last chapter. Four maps, forty-seven tables, and four appendices are included.