Party leadership under Stalin and Khrushchev : party officials and the Soviet state, 1948-1964 /

This study demonstrates that the full time party officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) used the term "party leadership" to both disguise and signal their efforts to lead the Communists who manned the Soviet state. In 1946, Stalin had made the newly formed Council of M...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Jonathan, 1935- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Subjects:	Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za. Political leadership > Soviet Union. Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1945-1991.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Origins of Conflict
Khrushchev vs. Malenkov, 1948-1953
Chairman Malenkov vs First Secretary Khrushchev
The Twentieth Congress of the CPSU: Khrushchev Defines his Priorities, 1956-1957
Khrushchev as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1958
The Impact of the U-2 Crisis: The 22nd Congress of the CPSU
Conflicts over Ideology and the Shrinkage and the Reform of the Apparat: The Return to Central State Control, 1961-1963
The CC/CPSU Plenum on Ideological Work (June 1963) during Khrushchev's Last Year.