The corruption in the Stalinist society after the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (based on the sources of Leningrad and Leningrad Region) Cover Image

Коррупция в условиях послевоенного сталинизма (на материалах Ленинграда и Ленинградской области)
The corruption in the Stalinist society after the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 (based on the sources of Leningrad and Leningrad Region)

Author(s): I. V. Govorov
Subject(s): History
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: corruption; self-supply; Stalinism; «Leningrad case»; appointees

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the sources of Leningrad and Leningrad Region and examines the problem of the corruption in the Stalinist society after the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. The article contains the information on the level of the corruption, its scales and forms and about the degree of the involvement of the representatives of the Soviet economic and party leaders into the corruption relations. The author comes to the conclusion that the most popular form of the corruption typical for the Stalinist system consisted of the «merging» of the Communist Party and the economic administrative personnel. This «merging» became an integral part of the life of the post-war society and influenced all the aspects of the state machinery functioning.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 66-81
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian