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Title

The split in Stalin's Secretariat, 1939-1948 / Jonathan Harris.

Author

Harris, Jonathan, 1935-

Publication

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

viii, 183 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Jonathan Harris shows that the leaders of Stalin's Secretariat clashed sharply over the nature of the Communist Party's "leadership" of the Soviet state in the period between 1939 and 1948. The term "party leadership" is generally misunderstood; it does not refer to the activities of the party as a whole but to the efforts of its full-time officials (the "inner party") to direct the activities of the members of the party who manned the Soviet state (the "outer party"). This study argues that Andrei Zhdanov and Georgii Malenkov, the two junior secretaries of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) who directed the two major bureaucratic divisions of the Secretariat for most of the period under review, supported diametrically opposed conceptions of the leadership to be provided by the party's officials. Zhdanov argued that they should give priority to the ideological education of all members of the party and should allow the Communists who manned the state considerable autonomy in their administration of the five-year plans. In direct contrast Malenkov, who directed the cadres' directorate for most of the period under review, had little sympathy for ideological education and urged party officials to engage in close and detailed direction of the Communists who directly administered the five-year plans."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Political leadership > Soviet Union > History
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1936-1953

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index.

Contents

1. The Split in the Secretariat -- 2. Stalin, the Secretariat, and the Sovnarkom, 1930-1939 -- 3. Zhdanov and Malenkov, 1939-1941 -- 4. The War and the Apparatus, 1941-1943 -- 5. The War and the Apparat, 1943-1945 -- 6. The Turbulent Restoration, 1945-1946 -- 7. Zhdanov's Uneasy Ascendancy, 1946 -- 8. Confusion and Compromise at the Top, 1947 -- 9. Zhdanov's Last Months: January-July 1948 -- 10. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780739126059 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0739126059 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008022020
• 40015851405

OCLC

• ocn227017800
• 227017800
• SCSB-14072374

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries