Working Norms and Practices of the Soviet Elite in Leningrad during the late Stalinist Period
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2020

The study of the history of Leningrad of Stalin's period was subjected to a rigid ideological impact, which is why, for a long time, it was examined selectively, in accordance with strict party attitudes. For the reason of the decades-long process of rehabilitation of the victims of the "Leningrad affair", there were no approaches in the scholarship to assessing normative and extreme everyday life in the corps of Leningrad state cadres. The article aims to present the research of the Soviet elit