Impact of the war in the USSR
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- Impact of the war in the USSR
- Political
- Women membership of the Communist Party rose - 18.3%
- Party became more education and less 'working class'
- 75% of the Party joined the war effort
- Party membership grew
- Party had younger, more professional members during the war
- After the war, Stalin took back all power
- GKO - ensured that Stalin had 'all power and authority of the State'
- Stalin became more of a dictator - ruling with an iron fist
- Economy
- Loss of men - reduced number of workers - agriculture suffered
- Farms had been destroyed following the Scorched Earth Policy
- USSR spent 38.7 billion roubles on the defence industry by 1944 - 17.9 billion roubles on military services
- Soviet war economy meant the economy after the war was very imbalanced
- Social
- Mass patriotism following the Soviet vistory
- Huge loss of soldiers - 1/5 of the pre war population had been lost
- About 20 million Soviet men died
- The people became more supressed
- Returning soldiers sent to gulags
- Historiography
- "For the Soviet people, the post-war period was even more difficult than the war period" - Peter Kenez
- "Was all the more disappointing for a society expecting some reward for wartime sacrifices and victories" - Christopher Reid
- Political
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