The Kremlin's Professional Staff: The “Apparatus” of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1950 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-85
Author(s):  
Louis Nemzer
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Effective Administration

Soviet leaders have long understood the need for effective administration in the modern state, despite their great interest in questions of theory and matters of policy. Joseph Stalin, in his first report as Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, warned in 1923 that “policy loses its sense and is transformed into a waving of hands,” unless an efficient system for policy-execution exists. Consequently, Stalin and his lieutenants have constructed an extensive and diversified system for this purpose, using many agencies and reaching into every corner of Soviet society. Although the paucity of essential data makes a comprehensive analysis of the entire system virtually impossible at this time, it is noteworthy that recent Soviet materials have thrown some light on the functions and operations of one important segment of that system. This is an agency attached to the highest level of the Communist Party, the “Apparatus” of the Party's Central Committee.The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) guides and controls all governmental, economic, social and other organizations in the USSR.

Конструируя Роскошь: Бытовое Пространство Советской Номенклатуры, 1940–1952 годы

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana N. Nikonorova ◽  
Татьяна Н. Никонорова
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Party Control ◽  
Political Hierarchy

This article is based on previously unpublished sources, mainly the archival materials of the Party Control Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). I argue that luxury can be seen as a phenomenon constructed by the Soviet social and political hierarchy during the 1940s and 1950s. An examination of everyday practices and patterns of consumption of luxury goods (food, clothing, interior furnishings, etc.) indicates that the Soviet elite (nomenklatura) sought to emulate a notional “middle-class” lifestyle. The distribution of so-called “trophy items” imported from East Germany to the Soviet Union caused friction within the party administration and sowed discontent within Soviet society as a whole. The dual policy of the CPSU on the issue of financial security of its members revealed its uncertainty about the state of “permitted” and “unauthorized” luxury.

FORMATION OF THE SOVIET UNION PERSONNEL POLICY IN THE 1930-S – 1940-S

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-167
Author(s):  
S.A. TARASOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
Organization Of Work ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Personnel Policy ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
The Soviet Union

The main purpose of the article is to reveal the features of the organization of work with the leading per-sonnel of the Soviet Union in the 1930-s – 1940-s, as an important component of the effective state man-agement. The article examines the state of work with the highest leading personnelof the Soviet Union in the 1930-s – 1940-s on the example of the personnel bodies’ activities of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)(VKP (b)).The focus of the study is on the Personnel Departmentof the Central Committee, the time of functioning of which falls on the specified chronological period.On the basis of archival materi-als, the organizational structure of the Department and the most important tasks faced by its employees in the process of working with the highest party, Soviet, economic and military leaders of the country are revealed.Brief biographical information of a number of officials who held key positions in this party body is provided.The existing shortcomings in the work, the procedure and the ways of fixing them are highlighted.

The Light of the Lux

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
William Klinger ◽  
Denis Kuljiš
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Secret Agent ◽  
Agent Activities

This chapter talks about Marshal Tito's return to Moscow in early 1935 after having successfully carried out the missions in Vienna and Ljubljana. It recounts Tito's arrival in the Soviet Union in February 1935, after having been co-opted in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and elected to the Politburo. It also analyzes Tito's work in the special “cadre department” of the Communist International (KI), which belonged to the Soviet intelligence apparatus. The chapter describes Tito as a military-trained cadre, a specialist in secret agent activities, organizing secretary, and underground activist. It looks at the structure of the apparatus and communist parties of the Comintern, which are considered as a visible political manifestation.

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