Organized Labor Recruitment Campaigns in the USSR in the 1950s-60s: Propaganda Practices

Student: Kozlova Kristina

Faculty: Faculty of Management

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2024

In the second half of the 1940s, during the post-war reconstruction of the national economy in the USSR, the system of organised recruitment of workers was resumed. Organised recruitment of workers is usually referred to as a form of labour migration, for example, to work at various enterprises or in agriculture. Since the 1950s, propaganda work has been one of the most important areas of activity in attracting labour migrants to the USSR. Its purpose was to inform the population about the goals and objectives of resettlement. The final qualification work presents an analysis of materials that helps to reveal the role of propaganda campaigns in the resettlement policy of the USSR in the period of post-war reconstruction.

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