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Slavic Review ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-768
Author(s):  
Elliot R. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
Final Text

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.

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