Party Leadership Under Stalin and Khrushchev - Party Officials and the Soviet State, 19481964

This study examines the concept of "party leadership" as used by officials in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It argues that the term was employed to both disguise and signal officials' efforts to lead the party and analyzes how it affected ideological education and the administration of the Soviet economy.

List of contents

Introduction: The Origins of Conflict
Chapter 1: Khrushchev vs. Malenkov, 1948-1953
Chapter 2: Chairman Malenkov vs First Secretary Khrushchev
Chapter 3: The Twentieth Congress of the CPSU: Khrushchev Defines his Priorities, 1956-1957
Chapter 4: Khrushchev as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1958
Chapter 5: The Impact of the U-2 Crisis: The 22nd Congress of the CPSU
Chapter 6: Conflicts over Ideology and the Shrinkage and the Reform of the Apparat: The Return to Central State Control, 1961-1963
Chapter 7: The CC/CPSU Plenum on Ideological Work (June 1963) during Khrushchev's Last Year

About the author

Jonathan Harris is professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Harris
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498528405
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2840-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Eastern Europe, Russia, HISTORY / World, Politics & government, Politics and government, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era