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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Jonathan, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political leadership--Soviet Union--History.

Political leadership.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1936-1953.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book attempts to demonstrate that the leaders of Stalin's Secretariat clashed sharply and continuously over the nature of the Communist party's 'leadership' of the Soviet state between 1939 and 1948. This study reconceptualizes the entire question of 'party-state' relations in the SSR's political system and therefore provides an original interpretation of a critical period in the development of the Stalinist political system.

Contents:

The split in the Secretariat

Stalin, the Secretariat, and the Sovnarkom, 1930-1939

Zhdanov and Malenkov, 1939-1941

The war and the apparatus, 1941-1943

The war and the apparat, 1943-1945

The turbulent restoration, 1945-1946

Zhdanov's uneasy ascendancy, 1946

Confusion and compromise at the top, 1947

Zhdanov's last months : January-July 1948

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-282-49328-0

9786612493287

0-7391-3014-5

OCLC:

248731891