About this episode

This episode discusses the extreme government control over labor and food in the Soviet Union during the war, highlighting the lack of mass opposition despite severe food shortages.

The war made life in the Soviet Union very difficult. Even by Soviet standards, the government took an unprecedented degree of control over the allocation of labor and of food. Despite food shortages, there was no mass opposition as there had been in 1917.

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