Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Glossary of Russian terms and abbreviation
- Introduction: The party in the post-totalitarian system
- 1 The party and the economy: structures and principles
- 2 Party interventions in industry
- 3 Interventions in industry: case studies
- 4 The party as regional coordinator
- 5 Regional coordination: case studies
- 6 The party as fireman: party interventions in the transport and energy sectors
- 7 The role of the party in agriculture
- 8 Non-party control organs
- 9 The principles underlying the party's work with cadres
- 10 The obkom elite in the 1980s
- 11 Party and economy under perestroika
- Conclusion Party and economy in the USSR: from stagnation to collapse
- Appendices
- 1 A note on working with obkom and oblast data
- 2 Ekonomicheskaia gazeta as a source on policy-making, 1976–1985
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC STAGNATION IN THE SOVIET UNION
1 - A note on working with obkom and oblast data
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Glossary of Russian terms and abbreviation
- Introduction: The party in the post-totalitarian system
- 1 The party and the economy: structures and principles
- 2 Party interventions in industry
- 3 Interventions in industry: case studies
- 4 The party as regional coordinator
- 5 Regional coordination: case studies
- 6 The party as fireman: party interventions in the transport and energy sectors
- 7 The role of the party in agriculture
- 8 Non-party control organs
- 9 The principles underlying the party's work with cadres
- 10 The obkom elite in the 1980s
- 11 Party and economy under perestroika
- Conclusion Party and economy in the USSR: from stagnation to collapse
- Appendices
- 1 A note on working with obkom and oblast data
- 2 Ekonomicheskaia gazeta as a source on policy-making, 1976–1985
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC STAGNATION IN THE SOVIET UNION
Summary
The purpose of this appendix is to explain how the career data discussed in chapter 10 were arrived at, and to discuss the procedures used to rank oblasti by agricultural and industrial importance.
Career biographies of party officials were mainly drawn from the yearbooks of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, since each time a new CC CPSU was selected this source published short biographies of all its members. Biographies were also published of all officials elected to the USSR Supreme Soviet. In addition, Radio Liberty Research Bulletins, Foreign Broadcast Information Service – USSR Reports and the Current Digest of the Soviet Press were used to track down sundry other items of information about obkom first secretaries which appeared in the Soviet press.
The data available are extremely sparse. Almost all the biographical data depend upon sources such as the following entry from the 1981 yearbook:
bannikov, nikolai vasil'evich: born 1914, member CC CPSU, elected at the 26th Congress of the CPSU in 1981. CPSU member since 1940. Completed the Kuibyshev Industrial Institute in 1937. From 1937–45 worked in a factory (mechanic, shop head, chief mechanic, deputy director, partorg CC CPSU). From 1945 – on party work. From 1955–59 – first secretary of Kuibyshev gorkom. From 1959–63 – second secretary, and from 1963–68 – first secretary of the Karaganda obkom of the Kazakh CP. (1963–65 – first secretary of the Karaganda industrial obkom.) Since 1968 – first secretary of the Irkutsk obkom. […]
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- The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet UnionThe Role of Local Party Organs in Economic Management, pp. 226 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992