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  Purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first major purge of the Communist Party ranks (or simply purge, Russian: "чистка") was performed by Bolsheviks as early as in 1921.
Although this term is mostly associated with Stalinism, the first purge of the Stalin era was performed only in 1929–1930 according to the resolution of the XVI Party Conference.
The next systematic Party purge in the Soviet Union was declared in December 1932 to be performed during 1933.
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 Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist parties in the Former Soviet Union
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 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Until 1989 the Communist party indirectly controlled all levels of government; the party’s politburo effectively ruled the country, and its general secretary was the country’s most powerful leader.
Soviet industry was owned and managed by the state, and agricultural land was divided into state farms, collective farms, and small, privately held plots.
Soviet foreign policy, long hampered by the hostility of the nations of Europe and America and by pervasive mutual distrust, was carried out first by Georgi Chicherin and from 1930 by Maxim M. Litvinov.
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 Articles - Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Soviet Union was created and expanded as a union of Soviet republics formed within the territory of the Russian Empire abolished by the Russian Revolution of 1917 followed by the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920.
The Soviet Union, founded three decades before the Cold War, became a primary model for future Communist states; the government and the political organization of the country were defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
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 Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It was the world's first Communist state, with the political organization of the country defined by the only permitted political party, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the ruling Communist Party from 1922 to his death in 1953 molded the features that characterized the new Soviet regime.
The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
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 The Communist Party of the Soviet Union Soviet Union Russian Russian...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Glasnost allowed freedom of speech in the Soviet Union and a flourishing of political debate within the Communist Party to a degree not seen since the Russian Revolution Russian Revolution while perestroika was an attempt to restructure the political and particuarly the economic organisation of the country.
At the Twenty-Seventy Party Congress in 1986, Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin became a candidate member of the Politburo and offended party members in a speech that attacked the hidden privliges of the party elite.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union collapse of the Soviet Union, the party became known as the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
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 RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: C :: CPSU
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union arose from the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDWP).
In 1918, when the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia, they changed their organisation's name to the All-Russian Communist Party; it was renamed the All-Union Communist Party in 1925 after the founding of the USSR and finally to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952.
In its turn the Central Committee elected the members of various party committees, two of which, the Politburo and the Secretariat, were the actual centres of ultimate power and authority in the Soviet Union.
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 Romania - The Communist Party
According to the party statutes, the supreme organ of the PCR was the party congress, consisting of delegates elected by the judet conferences at a ratio of 1 delegate per 1,000 members.
The party's identification with national interests was interpreted as rejection of the concept of "dictatorship of the proletariat," a phrase that was supplanted in party parlance by "state of the revolutionary workers' democracy." The policies pursued by the PCR were designed to maintain firm control of economic planning and administration.
Party control was enhanced by the territorial and administrative reorganization of 1968, which set up commissions in all of the new judete to function under the direct supervision of the judet PCR committees.
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 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
That party was the precursor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU--q.v.
A term coined by Joseph V. Stalin to indicate that the Soviet Union was surrounded by capitalist states pursuing political, military, and economic policies aimed at weakening and destroying the Soviet regime.
Soviet and Western experts believe that damage to the people's health, to the economy, and to the environment will be felt for decades.
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 Fire and Ice: Education Resources
This organization became the army of the Soviet Union after the establishment of the USSR in 1922.
Stalin – soviet politican, the successor of Lenin, general secretary of the Communist Party and premier of the USSR
Timoshenko - Soviet military commander, was the senior professional officer of the Red Army at the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
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 Communist Party
The American Communist Party was born in Chicago in 1919 and headquartered there until 1927, when its headquarters and newspaper, the Daily Worker, moved to New York.
The party also fought racial discrimination in factories, and in October 1925 organized the American Negro Labor Congress to bring African Americans into the labor movement.
In the 1930s, the Communist Party in Chicago reached its largest audience through organizing the unemployed and protesting evictions and cuts in relief.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/318.html   (376 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Bibliography
The Brezhnev Politburo and the Decline of Detente.
Schapiro, Leonard B. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Mystics and Commissars: Sufism in the Soviet Union.
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 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Country profiles | Timeline: Soviet Union
1924 - Soviet Union adopts constitution based on the dictatorship of the proletariat and stipulating the public ownership of land and the means of production; Lenin dies and is replaced by Joseph Stalin.
Although a Soviet counter-offensive saves Moscow, by June 1942 the Germans were on the gates of Stalingrad (now called Volgograd) and close to the Caucasus oil fields.
1945 - Soviet Union and the Allies reach understanding on postwar spheres of influence in Europe during the Yalta and Postdam summit conferences.
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 20th Century Timeline of Anthropological Theory
The Bolsheviks split away from the moderate Mensheviks at the Social Democratic party convention in London.
Joseph Stalin begins his purge of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union; most of the 5 million people arrested are killed.
Nazi, Fascist and Communist groups were declared illegal in Canada, and their leaders were jailed.
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