The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev : the Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991.

The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev : the Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991.

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Author / Creator:	Mawdsley, Evan, 1945-
Imprint:	Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (348 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡. -- T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ komitet. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov). -- T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ komitet. T︠S︡K RKP(b) T︠S︡K VKP(b) T︠S︡K KPSS. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ (bolʹshevikov). -- T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ komitet. Rossiĭskai︠a︡ sot︠s︡ial-demokraticheskai︠a︡ rabochai︠a︡ partii︠a︡. -- T︠S︡entralʹnyĭ komitet. T︠S︡K KPSS. T︠S︡K RKP(b) T︠S︡K VKP(b) Government executives -- Soviet Union. Elite (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union. Elite (Social sciences) Government executives. Politics and government. Soviet Union -- Politics and government. Soviet Union. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11259972

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Other authors / contributors:	White, Stephen.
ISBN:	9780191522857 0191522856 9780191599842 0191599840
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Although the product of a self-proclaimed proletarian revolution, Soviet Russia was always dominated by an elite. Basing itself upon nearly two thousand people who served on the Communist Party's Central Committee from 1917 to 1991, this is the first book to study the elite that ruled the world's largest country throughout the entire period of Soviet rule. It is also the first to make full use of the rich sources available since the collapse of Communism. The authors profile theelite as a whole and looks more closely at fifteen individual members, identifying four elite generations. The book e.
Other form:	Print version: Mawdsley, Evan. Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev : The Central Committee and its Members 1917-1991. Oxford : OUP Oxford, ©2000 9780198297383

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Figures; 1. Revolutionaries in Power, 1917-1923; 2. Old Bolsheviks, Socialist Construction, and the Purges, 1923-1939; 3. Stalin's New Elite, 1939-1956; 4. Stalinist Generation, 'Leninist Norms', 1956-1966; 5. The Elite Consolidates, 1966-1985; 6. Challenge and Crisis, 1985-1991; 7. Elite and Society; 8. An Evolving Elite; Bibliography; Index.