Purges and Forced Retirements of Soviet Party Elites as Power Tools of Social Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20327052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katya Vladimirov (Kennesaw State University, GA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-345 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian-American Slavic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-8290 • E-ISSN: 2210-2396 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22102396-04803005 |
| OpenAlex | W2028476385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The article presents a tumulus seventy-year history of the top party élite, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CC CPSU ), by profiling the anatomy of historical generations that embodied it. Five district generations in power and various political “teams” had been locked in ferocious battle for access to political capital, high social status, coveted positions, ranks, and privileges. Their survival and advancement demanded perseverance, bargaining skills, and ruthless elimination of competitors. Purges and forced retirement were essential power tools used in their generational struggle for power and status. The article discusses these methods of compulsory “exclusion” and offers innovative and revealing perspective on the nature of the Soviet political structure as well as on the techniques of its internal combat
Ancient history · Battle · Communism · Competitor analysis · Economics · Embodied cognition · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |