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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.) :; 21 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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