Postwar Reconstruction and Late Stalinist Policies in Soviet Russia (1945–1953)

1. War ends, reconstruction becomes top priority

   May 9, 1945Labels: Soviet government, Reconstruction

   • Britannica

2. Fourth Five-Year Plan is adopted

   Mar 1, 1946Labels: Fourth Five-Year, Soviet economy

   • Britannica
   • GlobalSecurity

3. Party resolution launches Zhdanov cultural crackdown

   Aug 14, 1946Labels: Zhdanov, Cultural policy

   • Chronotope
   • CiNii

4. Famine spreads after poor harvest and war damage

   Oct 1, 1946Labels: Famine 1946, Rural areas

   • Wiki Famine
   • Gr da

5. Death penalty is abolished for peacetime crimes

   May 26, 1947Labels: Legal reform, Soviet justice

   • US Historian

6. Currency reform ends rationing but shocks savings

   Dec 16, 1947Labels: Currency reform, Soviet economy

   • Wiki Reform
   • Wiki Famine

7. Zhdanov dies, opening a factional struggle

   Aug 31, 1948Labels: Andrey Zhdanov, Party leadership

   • Britannica

8. Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature announced

   Oct 20, 1948Labels: Great Plan, Agricultural engineering

   • Oxford EnvHist
   • Wiki Nature

9. Leningrad Affair purge expands after Zhdanov’s death

   Dec 1, 1948Labels: Leningrad Affair, Purge

   • Britannica

10. Death penalty is restored for key state crimes

    May 12, 1950Labels: Criminal law, Soviet policy

    • Wiki Capital
    • US Historian

11. Key Leningrad defendants are executed

    Oct 1, 1950Labels: Leningrad defendants, Executions

    • Britannica
    • Wiki Leningrad

12. Mingrelian Affair targets Georgian Party officials

    Jan 1, 1951Labels: Mingrelian Affair, Georgian Party

    • Wiki Mingrelian

13. Doctors’ Plot is publicized in Soviet press

    Jan 13, 1953Labels: Doctors' Plot, State media

    • Britannica

14. Stalin dies, ending the late-Stalin policy cycle

    Mar 5, 1953Labels: Joseph Stalin, Leadership change

    • LOC
    • Britannica

15. Doctors’ Plot is declared fabricated and doctors exonerated

    Apr 6, 1953Labels: Doctors' Plot, Reversal

    • Britannica