Soviet Elite

This study identifies a group of Soviet urban political leaders and compares it to other Soviet leadership groups, particularly those on the provincial level. While Soviet biographical data are still sparse, they do provide enough evidence to show that Soviet urban political leaders increasingly possess many of the attractive attributes of provincial leaders, such as a higher specialized education and upward mobility. As a group, Soviet urban political leaders resemble higher Soviet leadership groups reasonably closely, based upon the variables of age, education, length of Party membership, mobility, and career patterns. Data for these variables were obtained from Soviet biographies published between 1958 and 1966, and from interviews with Soviet officials in 1965 and 19691. The same biographical sources are, by and large, used by North American scholars in their studies of higher-level Soviet leadership groups.2

Elite · Political science · Politics · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History

• The Soviet Study of Soviet Cities

  B Michael Frolic•The Journal of Politics•1970

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