The High Title of a Communist : : Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime / / Edward Cohn.
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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Cohn, Edward, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The High Title of a Communist : Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime / Edward Cohn. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021] ©2015 1 online resource (260 p.) : 21 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Russian-language Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pseudonyms -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Communist Party and Its System of Internal Discipline in the Postwar Years -- Chapter Two The Last Purge: The Expulsion of POWs and Communists Who lived on Occupied Territory -- Chapter Three De-Stalinizing Party Discipline: Purging and Politics in Postwar Expulsion Cases -- Chapter Four Policing the Party: Corruption, Administrative Misconduct, and Control from Above in Postwar Party Discipline -- Chapter Five Sex and the Married Communist: Family Troubles and Marital Infidelity in the Postwar Communist Party -- Chapter Six "We Talk a lot, but Take Very Few Measures": The Party's Struggle with Drunkenness among Its Members -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za Purges. Party discipline Soviet Union. History. Political Science & Political History. Soviet & East European History. HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. bisacsh Communist Party, expelled Party membership, Russian provinces, investigated for misconduct in Soviet Union. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501757778 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501757778 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501757778/original |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Russian-language Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pseudonyms -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Communist Party and Its System of Internal Discipline in the Postwar Years -- Chapter Two The Last Purge: The Expulsion of POWs and Communists Who lived on Occupied Territory -- Chapter Three De-Stalinizing Party Discipline: Purging and Politics in Postwar Expulsion Cases -- Chapter Four Policing the Party: Corruption, Administrative Misconduct, and Control from Above in Postwar Party Discipline -- Chapter Five Sex and the Married Communist: Family Troubles and Marital Infidelity in the Postwar Communist Party -- Chapter Six "We Talk a lot, but Take Very Few Measures": The Party's Struggle with Drunkenness among Its Members -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Russian-language Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pseudonyms -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Communist Party and Its System of Internal Discipline in the Postwar Years -- Chapter Two The Last Purge: The Expulsion of POWs and Communists Who lived on Occupied Territory -- Chapter Three De-Stalinizing Party Discipline: Purging and Politics in Postwar Expulsion Cases -- Chapter Four Policing the Party: Corruption, Administrative Misconduct, and Control from Above in Postwar Party Discipline -- Chapter Five Sex and the Married Communist: Family Troubles and Marital Infidelity in the Postwar Communist Party -- Chapter Six "We Talk a lot, but Take Very Few Measures": The Party's Struggle with Drunkenness among Its Members -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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