Organization of propaganda, cultural and educational work among Soviet repatriates (1944–1946)

Abstract

In the Russian historical science there are almost no studies devoted to propaganda, mass cultural and educational activities of the Department of Plenipotentiary of Soviet Union on repatriation of Soviet citizens amongthe Soviet displaced persons duringthe Great Patriotic War and after it. The article analyzes the propaganda, mass cultural and educational work of the Administration of the Plenipotentiary of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars, political organs, the administration of collecting-transfer points and collection camps in 1944–1946. Special attention is paid to the identification and analysis of the forms and methods of political and educational work with repatriates, its difficulties and shortcomings.

Keywords

• the great patriotic war
• repatriation
• repatriates
• the office of the plenipotentiary of the ussr commission on repatriation
• agitation and propaganda work