In his final notes, Lenin assessed leading party figures, warned against excessive concentration of power in Stalin’s hands, and proposed organizational changes. The text was withheld from broad...
A Central Committee resolution condemned Zvezda and Leningrad, and Andrei Zhdanov publicly attacked writers and satirists. The intervention marked a broad campaign to discipline intellectual life in...
A government and party decree exchanged old rubles for new ones and ended wartime rationing. The measure restructured household savings and cash holdings as the state sought to stabilize the currency;...
Party criticism targeted scholars and cultural workers accused of insufficient patriotism and “rootless cosmopolitanism.” The campaign helped institutionalize antisemitic discrimination while...
