title: Making Peace with War: Adaptation and the Soviet Political Economy in the Blockade of Leningrad
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metadata.value: Hass J. K.
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metadata.value: Lomagin, N. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-04-10T09:36:52Z
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metadata.value: 2020-04-10T09:36:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Hass J. K., Lomagin N. A. ‘Making Peace with War: Adaptation and the Soviet Political Economy in the Blockade of Leningrad’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 53–69.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17306
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metadata.value: War demands the capacity of state elites and officials, and institutions, to adapt to challenges. One
  constant refrain in Western accounts was the inability of the Soviet command economy to adapt—yet that command
  economy contributed to survival and eventual victory. To what extent could and did economic actors and
  institutions adapt to new circumstances, versus following tried-and-true policies of the 1930s? In this article, we
  use the case of Leningrad in late 1941 and 1942, when the Blockade provided severe challenges and became
  more than a fleeting military event. One of the most important challenge (if not the most important) was the supply
  and distribution of food to maintain the operation of the city and military production. The massive death toll
  revealed the degree of the challenge, the force of the German siege, and the lack of sufficient preparation beforehand.
  Yet the regime did implement innovations and adaptations in obtaining and provisioning. We focus on one
  set of formal policies: the streamlining of food distribution and the expansion of podsobnoe khoziaistvo (successes),
  and the possibility of using fish (a failure). These policies were grounded in existing institutional templates and
  knowledge; however, fishing policies revealed contradictions between civilian and military actors. More radical
  innovations would require informality; but the Soviet regime could adapt.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: blockade
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political economy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: command economy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rationing
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metadata.value: Making Peace with War: Adaptation and the Soviet Political Economy in the Blockade of Leningrad
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