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Ads by Google      NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Great Purge In his secret speech to the 20th CPSU congress in February 1956 (which was made public a month later), Khruschev referred to the purges as an "abuse of power" by Stalin which resulted in enormous harm to the country. Towards the end of the purges, Yezhov was relieved from his post, later arrested on charges of espionage (proved to be false) and treason, tried, found guilty, and shot. They sought to ensure that members of the Party would follow the orders of the center, in strict accordance with the principle of democratic centralism, rather than continuing as the faction-ridden revolutionary party it had been in the 1920s, and to remove any possible " fifth column " in case of a war. http://pedia.nodeworks.com/G/GR/GRE/Great_Purge      Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Definition and Much More From Answers.com He was replaced as first secretary of the CPSU by Leonid I. Brezhnev (who in 1960 had become chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet) and as premier by Alexei N. Kosygin. The CPSU continued to control the government and run the country, and Stalin, as the Wisest of the Wise, was firmly in control of the party. At the 22d CPSU congress in 1961 the attack on Stalin was continued, and the reputations of many purge victims of the 1930s were rehabilitated. http://www.answers.com/topic/union-of-soviet-socialist-republics      Communist Party In the 1930s Joseph Stalin instigated a series of purges against senior members of the CPSU. The CPSU also appointed all local and national public officials, who had to be members of the party before they could be appointed to these posts. Joseph Stalin, who became General Secretary in April, 1922, dominated the CPSU after the death of Vladimir Lenin in January, 1924. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScp.htm      Encyclopedia: CPSU Party Congress The Congress of the CPSU was the gathering of the delegates of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its predecessors. Between the congresses the party was ruled by the Central Committee, abbreviated as ЦК, "Tseka". Theoretically, the Congress was the supreme ruling body of the entire Party. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/CPSU-Party-Congress   (351 words)      Korean Workers' Party The party congress approves reports of the party organs, adopts basic party policies and tactics, and elects members to the KWP Central Committee and the Central Auditing Committee. The Twentieth Party Congress of the Soviet Communist Party was a bombshell with Nikita Khrushchev's Secret speech denouncing Stalin and the inauguration of destalinization. In theory, the national party congress is the supreme party organ. http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/K/Korean-Workers'-Party.htm   (4188 words)      Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 While party debates in the party congresses of the 1920s were stormy and intraparty democracy was still evident, by the 16th party congress (1929) Stalin established virtual supremacy. The party gained a legal monopoly in the Soviet constitution of 1977 (other parties had been banned since 1921), but otherwise the period was one of stagnation after the failure of Khrushchev& reforms. The second party congress (1903) in Brussels and London split into factions of Bolshevism and Menshevism. http://www.bartleby.com/65/co/CommunisUSSR.html   (1182 words)      Encyclopedia: CPSU Central Committee The Central Committee also made a landmark decision in March 1985 when it elected the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev as the next General Secretary of CPSU with the margin of just one vote more than the hardliner Viktor Grishin. The Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, "Tseka", was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). From 1917 to 1934, the Central Committee did act as a parliament. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/CPSU-Central-Committee   (1182 words)      Communist Party of the Soviet Union Party Congresses would elect a Central Committee which, in turn, would elect a Politburo. Under Stalin the most powerful position in the party became the General Secretary who was elected by the Politburo. The governing body of the CPSU was the Party Congress which initially met annually but whose meetings became less frequent, particularly under Stalin. http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/C/Communist-Party-of-the-Soviet-Union.htm   (1247 words)      The Communist Party of China and the 20th Congress of the CPSU This is clearly a reversal of the public estimate of the 20th Congress made by the CPC in 1956, and repeated in its support for the Declaration of 1957 and the Statement of 1960. The study concludes that the public statements and actions of the CPC between 1955 and 1960 were not such as to suggest that the CPC understood the implications of the Twentieth Congress and the rise of modern revisionism. It is clear that the public statements and actions of the CPC during the critical years of 1955-60, on the major issues of reconciliation with Titoism, the nature of the 20th Congress, and the Stalin question, cannot be reconciled with Lin Piao’s assertion in his Report to the 9th Congress of the CPC that: http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv6n1/bico.htm   (7753 words)      Hungary Party Congress - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System The Politburo gave its prior approval to officials elected by the party congress. The congress merely ratified solutions to political, social, and economic problems that had been developed by the Secretariat and approved by the Politburo. The Thirteenth Party Congress had 935 delegates, or about 1 for every 1,000 party members. http://www.photius.com/countries/hungary/government/hungary_government_party_congress.html   (525 words)      MSN Encarta - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics They could join only associations approved by the CPSU. After 1953 the CPSU allowed most of the banished peoples to return and moderated its stance, although it did not hesitate to use force against open critics of the system. CPSU theory classified the Soviet Union as a socialist society in which three main groups—the working class (proletariat), peasantry, and white-collar intelligentsia—coexisted harmoniously and selflessly laid the foundations of the coming communist utopia. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553017/article.html   (525 words)      Modern History Sourcebook: Nikita S. Khrushchev: The Secret Speech - On the Cult of Personality, 1956 The majority of the Central Committee members and candidates elected at the 17th congress and arrested in 1937-38 were expelled from the party illegally through the brutal abuse of the party statute, because the question of their expulsion was never studied at the Central Committee plenum. Lenin always diligently observed that the norms of party life were realized, that the party statute was enforced, that the party congresses and the plenary sessions of the central committee took place at the proper intervals. Present at this Congress as a delegate is the former Minister of State Security Comrade Ignatiev. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956khrushchev-secret1.html   (4605 words)      THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS) AND SOVIETIZATION OF THE TERRITORIES ANNEXED IN 1939–1941 On 14 August, the highest party body approved the framework decision of the CPSU’s Central Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR on the organisation of public administration and development of economy of Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, i.e. On 28 December, the Politburo approved the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the CPSU’s Central Committee on taxes and charges levied on farms in Soviet Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Executive committees of large cities and counties were set up according to the decree of the Supreme Soviet of the republic and in districts, urban and rural settlements and towns – under the decision of the county executive committee. http://www.genocid.lt/GRTD/Konferencijos/eng/natalija.htm   (4605 words)      Congress of the CPSU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Congress of the CPSU was the gathering of the delegates of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its predecessors. Between the congresses the party was ruled by the Central Committee, abbreviated as ЦК, "Tseka". Theoretically, the Congress was the supreme ruling body of the entire Party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_CPSU   (357 words)      SEVEN LETTERS EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION It began with the 20th Congress of the CPSU and was aggravated at the 22nd Congress and later. Beginning with the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, you imposed public polemics on the entire international communist movement in violation of the principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties as laid down in the 1960 Statement, and you asserted that to do so was to "act in Lenin's manner". The CC CPSU emphasizes that for the successful implementation of all these measures it is necessary that there be a cessation of public polemics and an abandonment of all types of subversive and schismatic activity in the socialist community and the communist movement. http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/classics/mao/polemics/sevenlet.html   (357 words)      Central Asian History, Part 2 The 27th CPSU Party Congress approves the policies of perestroika and glasnost. The 22nd Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) Party Congress, at which the concepts of sblizhenie and sliianie are introduced. The liquidation of the Kazakh Alash-Orda party by the Communists and the replacement of Kazakhs by Russians in the republican government. http://www.oxuscom.com/cahist2.htm   (1949 words)      Freeze Resource 4: CPSU Central Committee Politbuto Decision "About the ... CPSU Central Committee Politbuto Decision "About the instruction to the Soviet Ambassador in Washington for his conversation with Vance on the question of 'human rights'" and text of instruction,February 18, 1977 Freeze Resource 4: CPSU Central Committee Politbuto Decision "About the... The draft of the instructions to the Soviet Ambassador in Washington this question is to be approved. http://www.learning.turner.com/cnn/coldwar/freeze/frze_re4.html   (1949 words)      Communist Party Gradually power passed from the Politburo to the General Secretary, who controlled the appointment of party members to key jobs throughout the country. Traditionally, the Party Congress elected a 27 member Central Committee every year. The CPSU also appointed all local and national public officials, who had to be members of the party before they could be appointed to these posts. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScp.htm   (316 words)      [Marxism] Re: Fernando Claudin and the CPSU 20th Party Congress Previous message: [Marxism] Re: Fernando Claudin and the CPSU 20th Party Congress This great myth created another, that the Stalinist party was the unchallengeable bearer of revolutionary Marxism. For this reason, even when the crisis of the Stalinist party began to show itself, first in the Communist International and later in the national parties, in the process which has been analysed in this book, the crisis could not enter its decisive stage until the great myth had been shattered. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2004-August/012164.html   (403 words)      Soviet Politics The Regional Party Congress's main function was to determine who would represent the region in the next CPSU Party Congress. The Party Congress was a major event held every five years. The District Congress's main function was to determine who would represent the district in the next Regional Party Congress. http://www.cssd.ab.ca/tech/social/tut9/lesson_22.htm   (864 words)      Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Belarus (Belarus and Moldova) / Glossary Announced at the Twenty-Seventh Party Congress of the CPSU (q.v. That party was the precursor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU-- q.v. As a consequence of the failed coup, the CPSU and the Soviet central government were severely discredited, Gorbachev resigned, ten of the fifteen Soviet republics declared or reaffirmed their independence (including Belarus and Moldova), and the Congress of People's Deputies (q.v. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/belarus/by_glos.html   (3020 words)      Nikita S. Khrushchev: Crimes of the Stalin Era The majority of the Central Committee members and candidates elected at the 17th Congress and arrested in 1937-1938 were expelled from the party illegally through the brutal abuse of the party statute, because the question of their expulsion was never studied at the Central Committee plenum. The Central Committee considers it absolutely necessary to inform the Congress of many such fabricated "cases" against the members of the party's Central Committee elected at the 17th Party Congress. The commission has presented to the Central Committee Presidium lengthy and documented materials pertaining to mass repressions against the delegates to the 17th Party Congress and against members of the Central Committee elected at that Congress. http://www.trussel.com/hf/stalin.htm   (3020 words)      History of Iran: State of paralysis (Tudeh factionalism and the 1953 coup) This policy, which eventually manifested itself in the resolutions of the nineteenth congress of the CPSU, held in October 1952, suggested that the bourgeoisie had let down the cause of democracy on the international scale and that now it was the duty of the international proletariat to pick up the banner of democracy. This faction considered the Tudeh to be the working class party and this perception became a major point of dispute with the moderate faction. The party's 1948 second congress gave more definite shape to the factions. http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/state_of_paralysis.php   (8756 words)      Tourism in Azerbaijan In this period the protest meeting of Azerbaijanis who passed along the streets of Moscow with the black flags to the building of the Central Committee of CPSU to hand the letter of protest was held outside the permanent representation of Azerbaijan in Moscow. The ex leader of Azerbaijan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of CPSU, retired Deputy Chairman of USSR Ministries Council Heydar Aliyev held the press-conference in the Permanent Representation of Azerbaijan in Moscow where he condemned inhuman action of soviet troops in Azerbaijan. On January 22, 1990 the primary party organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan excluded Abdurahman Vezirov from CPSU and it rose the question to call him to account for the crimes perpetrated against the Azerbaijani people. http://azerbaijan.tourism.az/garakonf/20yanv/20jan.html   (8756 words)      Chronology of Reforms of the Political System July 2: Opening of twenty-eighth and last Congress of the CPSU, which lasts until July 12; factionalization of CPSU. April 24: Gorbachev offers to resign as CPSU general secretary at Central Committee plenum, but offer is rejected. July 26: CPSU Central Committee accepts new draft Party Program that abandons key elements of Marxism-Leninism and embraces pluralism. http://www.macalester.edu/russian/courses/rus50b/chronicle.html   (942 words)      Encyclopedia: Stalin In April 1917, Stalin was elected to the Central Committee with the third highest vote total in the party and was subsequently elected to the Politburo of the Central Committee (May 1917); he held this position for the remainder of his life. Towards the end of the purge, the Politburo relieved NKVD head Nikolai Yezhov, from his position for overzealousness. A political commissar is an officer appointed by a communist party to oversee a unit of the military. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Stalin   (942 words)      Marxism message, [Marxism] Re: Fernando Claudin and the CPSU 20th Party Congre [Marxism] Re: Fernando Claudin and the CPSU 20th Party Congress, B. RE: [Marxism] Re: Fernando Claudin and the CPSU 20th Party Congress I can say that if he did write a book on the CPSU 20th Party Congress, no library whose holdings are accessible through WorldCat owns it. http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w32/msg00203.htm   (385 words)      Modern History Sourcebook: Chinese Communist Party: The Leaders of the CPSU are the Greates Splitters of Our Times, February 4, 1964 The leaders of the CPSU regard fraternal Parties as pawns on their diplomatic chessboard. Between the 20tb and 22nd Congresses of the CPSU, the leaders of the CPSU developed a rounded systcm of revisionism. The Leaders of the CPSU are the Greates Splitters of Our Times, February 4, 1964 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964CCP-onCPSU.html   (385 words)      The rectification On November 11, 1938, Stalin and Molotov   signed a clear decision, putting an end to the excesses that took place during the purges. It was not the result of a petrified bureaucracy's stamping out dissent and annihilating old radical revolutionaries. According to Rittersporn,   in 1937--1938, during the `Great Purge', there were 278,818 expulsions from the Party. http://www.plp.org/books/Stalin/node121.html   (385 words)      Encyclopedia: Secretariat of the CPSU The General Secretary of the CPSU was the leader of the Secretariat as were two or three other senior members of the Politburo. The Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee was a key body within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was responsible for the central administration of the party as opposed to drafting government policy which was usually handled by the Politburo. Also in 1922, the position of General Secretary was created, the General Secretary became the head of the Secretariat and, in the years following Lenin's death, became the most important figure in the party and the country. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Secretariat-of-the-CPSU   (385 words)

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