Reports on letters and applications addressed to I. Stalin in 1946-1952: review of archives

Abstract

The article presents a general review of
reports on personal letters and letters of applications
addressed to I.V. Stalin during the period from 1946 to
1952 and kept in Fund 588 of the Russian State Archive
of Social and Political History. The reports include the
abstracts of letters, chosen for Stalin to get acquainted
with, and a few handwritten, typed or copied full-text
letters (not more than two or five in each report). The
themes of the letters vary greatly. Therefore, the study
is concerned only with the most significant of them, to
which the authors refer inquiry letters asking to clarify
some theoretical questions from different fields of
knowledge (geopolitics, political economy, psychology,
linguistics, etc.).