Soviet Price Controls and Wartime Rationing (1941–1946)

1. Germany invades; wartime economic emergency begins

   Jun 22, 1941Labels: Eastern Front, Nazi Germany

   • Britannica
   • GKO

2. State Defense Committee (GKO) is established

   Jun 30, 1941Labels: State Defense, USSR

   • GKO

3. Food ration cards are introduced during early war

   Aug 1, 1941Labels: Ration Cards, Soviet government

   • Archivist
   • Rationing USSR

4. Leningrad’s bread ration is cut early in siege

   Sep 12, 1941Labels: Leningrad, Bread Ration

   • Archivist

5. Worst Leningrad ration norms hit in late 1941

   Dec 1, 1941Labels: Leningrad, Starvation

   • Rationing
   • Archivist

6. Rations differentiate by labor category in Moscow

   Jan 1, 1942Labels: Moscow, Labor Categories

   • FRUS

7. Rationing becomes a labor-mobilization tool

   Sep 1, 1942Labels: Rationing Policy, Labor Mobilization

   • FRUS

8. Commercial trade coexists with rationed prices

   Jan 1, 1943Labels: Commercial Trade, State Prices

   • FRUS

9. GKO is dissolved after wartime governance ends

   Sep 4, 1945Labels: State Defense, Postwar USSR

   • GKO

10. Postwar shortages feed the 1946–1947 crisis

    Jan 1, 1946Labels: 1946 1947, Postwar USSR

    • Famine

11. Government sharply raises rationed-goods prices

    Sep 16, 1946Labels: Price Reform, Soviet Government

    • CIA FOIA
    • FRUS
    • Famine

12. Bread-saving decree tightens grain consumption policy

    Sep 27, 1946Labels: Bread-saving Decree, Grain Policy

    • Famine

13. Monetary reform and card-system abolition are launched

    Dec 16, 1947Labels: Monetary Reform, Ration Card

    • Monetary reform
    • REESOURCES

14. Officials’ ration privileges are replaced with allowances

    Dec 23, 1947Labels: Officials' Allowances, Special Stores

    • REESOURCES