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Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confirmation of a New by J. Eric Duskin (auth.)

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If Stalin had hoped, however, that the announcement of the Fourth Five-Year Plan's lofty goals would help stimulate growth and energize the population, then he had badly miscalculated. The Soviet economy proved to be far weaker than Stalin or his planners seem to have anticipated. 3 (bam) Source: Alec Nove, An Economic History of the USSR, 1917-199/, 3rd ed. (New York: Penguin, 1992), p. 298. The Price of Victory 35 famine. The Soviet people continued to suffer worsening deprivation and uncertainty for more than a year after Stalin's election speech.

We have seen that the mass migrations and resettlements touched off by the end of hostilities complicated labor force reconstitution and disrupted production. We must now look at why these troubles were not quickly resolved. Part of the explanation can be found in events that were largely beyond the influence of Russia's leaders. The most important of these was the 1946 drought. That year the grain harvest declined 16 percent as compared with 1945 and was less than half the 1940 level. 134 The resulting food shortages further delayed recovery by prolonging the need for rationing, encouraging even more peasant migration, and greatly increasing the immiseration of an already weary population.

118 At least 530 of the new workers had come from other oblasts. 119 Few of the new workers were skilled, and because textiles was a low-priority industry with less ability to secure perks for its workers, the Glukhovskii complex had little chance of luring skilled personnel away from other industries. Overall, the textile industry felt the shortage of trained and experienced workers more than most. The Council of Ministers half-heartedly addressed the issue with resolutions stating that ministries employing former textile workers who wished to return to textiles were required to release them.

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