Reconstruction at Leningrad's Admiralty Shipyards 1946-1950

摘要

The "late Stalin" years in the Soviet Union, those immediately following World War Ⅱ, have been generally characterized in the relevant historiography as gloomy, stagnant, and stultifyingly repressive. This verdict is shared by a surprisingly broad array of historians. The postwar years are portrayed as a time of cultural, economic, and scientifk-technological backwardness, xenophobia, and deep disappointment within the population due to the reimposition of tight controls after the relative openness of the war years. The experience of Admiralty Shipyards in Leningrad, however, seems to demonstrate that this complex era was also marked by faith, productivity, and technological progress that would not be apparent either in the later post-Stalin Soviet period or in today's "New Russia." This case study of Soviet post-World War Ⅱ industrial reconstruction at a high-priority heavy industrial enterprise focuses on how the managers and workers of Leningrad's Admiralty Shipyards successfully met the production and technological tasks confronting them.