DOI 10.51255/2311–603X_2025_2_181

A. I. Rupasov. Voters’ Wishes as a Source for the Study of the Socio-Economic Situation in
Leningrad (First Half of the 1960s) // Petersburg Historical Journal, no. 2, 2025, pp. 181–192

Abstract:

The article analyses the wishes of Leningrad voters expressed at meetings with deputies of the
Supreme Soviets of the USSR and the RSFCR, city and district councils in the first half of the 1960s. Attention to these documents is determined by two points. First, the blurring of the general picture of the socio-economic situation in Leningrad, which occurs when dealing with historical studies of the initial period, namely the stage of “transition to the stage of completion of the foundations of the construction of communism”. Secondly, the rare use of such documents in the analysis of the socio-economic situation. The study of the above-mentioned
documents allows us to highlight both the full range of problems in Leningrad in 1960–1965, and the extremely limited possibilities of the city authorities to solve them, due to the lack of financial resources and the dynamics of the city’s growth.

Key words: voters’ wishes, socio-economic problems, transition to communism, Leningrad, 1960s.

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