WORKING PEOPLE 'S LETTERS TO I. V. STALIN. 1946: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECT
The article deals with the working peoples letters to I.V.Stalin in 1946. The records kept in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History include mainly annotations of the letters and partially the letters themselves. These epistolary documents are a historical source which characterizes the situation and expectations of various social groups in post-war soviet society. The author takes into consideration this aspect while analyzing the letters of: collective farmers, urban population, former prisoners of war and the repatriated ones. All those letters in whole make up a picture of Soviet peoples everyday-life in post-war poverty and hunger of 1946. Questions of material security were important for most of status groups, while former prisoners of war and the repatriated citizens were mostly interested in their legal status problems.