Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated for misconduct by local party organizations and then reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. Party leaders viewed these investigations as a form of moral education a...

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1. Verfasser:	Cohn, Edward (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	DeKalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Press, [2015]
Ausgabe:	First edition.
Schlagworte:	Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za > Discipline > History. Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za Kommunističeskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava Party discipline > Soviet Union. Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za > Purges. Discipline de parti > URSS. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Discipline Party discipline Parteiausschluss Parteidisziplin Partidisciplin. Politiska utrensningar. Soviet Union Communist Party, expelled Party membership, Russian provinces, investigated for misconduct in Soviet Union. History
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Zusammenfassung:	Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated for misconduct by local party organizations and then reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. Party leaders viewed these investigations as a form of moral education and used humiliating public hearings to discipline wrongdoers and send all Soviet citizens a message about how Communists should behave. The High Title of a Communist is the first study of the Communist Party's internal disciplinary system in the decades following World War II.Edward Cohn uses the practices of expulsion and censure as a window into how the postwar regime defined the ideal Communist and the ideal Soviet citizen. As the regime grappled with a postwar economic crisis and evolved from a revolutionary prewar government into a more bureaucratic postwar state, the Communist Party revised its informal behavioral code, shifting from a more limited and literal set of rules about a party member's role in the economy to a more activist vision that encompassed all spheres of life. The postwar Soviet regime became less concerned with the ideological orthodoxy and political loyalty of party members, and more interested in how Communists treated their wives, raised their children, and handled their liquor. Soviet power, in other words, became less repressive and more intrusive. Cohn uses previously untapped archival sources and avoids a narrow focus on life in Moscow and Leningrad, combining rich local materials from several Russian provinces with materials from throughout the USSR. The High Title of a Communist paints a vivid portrait of the USSR's postwar era that will help scholars and students understand both the history of the Soviet Union's postwar elite and the changing values of the Soviet regime. In the end, it shows, the regime failed in its efforts to enforce a clear set of behavioral standards for its Communists--a failure that would threaten the party's legitimacy in the USSR's final days.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	1609091795 9781609091798 9781501757778 1501757776