Communist Party membership in the U.S.S.R., 1917-1976 / T. H. Rigby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rigby, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1925- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza--Membership.

Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (595 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this comprehensive and latest statistical profile of the membership of the Communist Party during the first half-century of the Soviet regime, Professor Rigby analyzes the history of party recruitment and composition. Since the party makes vital contributions to the performance of several basic tasks within the Soviet political system, the author interprets his data mainly in functional terms. He identifies and evaluates the influence of these functional considerations on recruitment policies and on the changing patterns of membership, and determines the priorities assigned to different functions under changing circumstances. T.H. Rigby is Professor of Political Science, Research School of Social Science, Australian National University. Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Introduction

PART ONE: CPSU Membership History

1. From Revolutionary Underground to State Party

2. Victory

-and a Purge

3. The Lenin Enrollment

4. Proletarianization Slackens

5. Proletarianization Renewed

-and Ended

6. Enter the New Elite

7. World War II: Party and Army

8. Postwar Consolidation

9. The Khrushchev Enrollment

10. A Party of the Whole People

PART TWO: Some Special Aspects

11. Turnover, Age and Sex

12. Nationality

13. Party Membership and Education

14. A Representative Elite?

15. Driving Belts

16. Geographical Distribution

Conclusion: Determinants of CPSU Composition

Notes:

"Word kids!"

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691655260

069165526X

9780691198545

0691198543

OCLC:

1132219314