Centre-periphery relations in the Soviet post-war famine of 1946–471
Year: 2025

This chapter offers the first exploration in literature of the role played by two major Soviet leaders, Lazar Kaganovich and Alexei Kosygin, in the development of the under-researched Soviet famine in 1946–1947. Kosygin and Kaganovich’s roles and remits were very different, but both were sent by Stalin to Ukraine and Moldova respectively as central representatives of the Soviet government to bring local authorities in these peripheries ‘into line’ for their ‘failures’ leading into the famine and