Cominform announces the “two camps” doctrine

The General Assembly approved the creation of a United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. The Soviet Union participated in negotiations over international control while pursuing its own nuclear...

The Moldavian SSR government and Communist Party bureau issued a joint resolution providing assistance to collective farms, state farms, and individual farmers after the poor 1946 harvest. Relief...

The Soviet Union joined the Paris peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. The settlement redrew borders and constrained sovereignty, particularly in Eastern Europe, where...

Moldavian archival records document emergency relief measures as famine mortality rose, including soup kitchens and assistance for children. Such efforts were limited and uneven; people also relied on...

The U.S. Secretary of State proposed European recovery aid. Soviet leaders rejected the program and pressed governments in their sphere to do likewise, linking reconstruction to bloc competition and...

Soviet security forces deported tens of thousands of people from western Ukraine to Siberia and other eastern regions, targeting families alleged to aid the Ukrainian nationalist underground....

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;...

The monetary reform took effect, with exchange limits and conversion rules affecting savings, wages, and cash economies. Official claims of stabilization must be read alongside the unequal burden on...

Mikhoels, a leading actor and wartime head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was killed in Minsk in an operation organized by Soviet security services; authorities presented his death as an...

After a government crisis, President Edvard Beneš accepted a cabinet dominated by the Communist Party. Soviet influence was decisive in the broader regional setting, though domestic actors and...