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| | Communist Party Statistics Sources |
 | | The party's secretary-general from 1930 until 1964, Maurice Thorez, was briefly (1946-47) vice-premier of France; the party was led by Georges Marchais (1920-97) from 1972 to 1993. | | | At the apex of the pyramid were the All-Union Congress, nominally the party's supreme policymaking body; the Central Committee, elected by the Congress; the Political Bureau (Politburo), chosen by the Central Committee; and the Secretariat. | | | Four Communists served in the cabinet from June 1981 to July 1984; two Communists were named to the cabinet in June 1997. |
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| | Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Iridis Encyclopedia |
| | In theory, supreme power in the party was invested in the Party Congress, however, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary. | | | Under Stalin the most powerful position in the party became the General Secretary who was elected by the Politburo. | | | Party Congresses would elect a Central Committee which, in turn, would elect a Politburo. |
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| | Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Pictures |
| | In theory, supreme power in the party was invested in the Party Congress, however, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary. | | | At the 18th Party Congress was held in 1939, only 2% of the delegates had also been delegates to the last congress held in 1934. | | | At the 17th CPSU Party Congress (February 1934) Sergei Kirov only received three negative votes in the election to the Politburo showing himself to be the most popular Soviet leader while Stalin received 267 negative votes ranking him the least popular. |
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| | Hexapedia - Communist party |
| | In principle, a party congress elects a central committee which elects a politburo which, in turn, elects a general secretary. | | | In theory, a party congress would elect a central committee, which elected a Politburo. | | | Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the USSR from the mid-1960s to 1982 |
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| | Congress of the CPSU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Theoretically, the Congress was the supreme ruling body of the entire Party. | | | The Second Congress, 1903, Belgium, resulted into the party's split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions which eventually became parties in their own right. | | | After the death of Joseph Stalin the Congresses were held every five years. |
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| | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| | In theory, supreme power in the party was invested in the Party Congress, however, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary. | | | Under Stalin the most powerful position in the party became the General Secretary who was elected by the Politburo. | | | Party Congresses would elect a Central Committee which, in turn, would elect a Politburo. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/C/Communist-Party-of-the-Soviet-Union.htm
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| | Russia |
| | The more immediate reasons for the demise of the USSR were associated with Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who became head of the Communist Party and the President of the Soviet Union in 1985. | | | Many laws are simply passed by decree from the office of the President or his delegate, the Prime Minister. | | | The party members at the top, in the Secretariat, for example, chose the leaders underneath them who then chose the leaders underneath them, who then chose…. |
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http://faculty.valencia.cc.fl.us/tbyrnes/russia.htm
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| | LEONID BREZHNEV FACTS AND INFORMATION |
| | Until about 1962 Khrushchev's position as Party leader was secure, but as the leader aged he grew more erratic and his performance undermined the confidence of his fellow leaders. | | | Brezhnev became Party First Secretary, Aleksei_Kosygin became Prime Minister and Mikoyan became head of state. | | | In 1959 Brezhnev became Second Secretary of the Central Committee and in May 1960 was promoted to the post of President of the Presidium_of_the_Supreme_Soviet, making him nominal head of state. |
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| | USSR - Factbites |
| | Jobs held: Border Guard, Party Secretary of Border Guard Unit, Agitprop director in Krasnoyarsk and other regions, Party Clerk, Central Committee member and secretary, Politburo member, Supreme Soviet Presidium Member, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, General Secretary of the CPSU. | | | The Council of Ministers of the USSR, or the official to whom the inquiry is addressed, is obliged to give a verbal or written reply within three days at the given session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. | | | He briefly served as minister of finance of the USSR (Feb. 16 - Dec. 28, 1948) and next as minister for light industry (Dec. 28, 1948 - March 15, 1953). |
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| | Chinese Communist Party |
| | The highest leading body of the Party is the National Congress and the Central Committee elected by it. | | | The Party conducts its activities within the framework of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China and the law and has no right to transcend the Constitution and the law. | | | All Party members, like all citizens in the country, are equal before the law. |
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| | Wikinfo Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| | In March, the Congress of Peoples Deputies repealed Article Six of the Soviet Constitution, which had guaranteed monopoly political power for the party. | | | A name change had been first mooted in Lenin's April Theses, which articulated Lenin's sense that the term Social-Democracy had become devalued, a notion he articulated in his pamphlet Socialism and War (1915) where he talked of the pro-war Social-Democrats as Social-Chauvinists. | | | In February of 1990, the CPSU called for the end of its constitutional guarantee of power. |
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| | SAC 1921-1945 |
| | Child was an early supporter of Theodore Roosevelt and his "Bull Moose" party of US progressives. | | | USA support for USSR clear from June 24 Roosevelt announcement [US Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s 1948 memoir on the situation—RFP2,3:60-4] | | | By this time, Jay Lovestone was the leading figure in CLP, but he became entangled in Stalin’s struggle against Nikolai Bukharin. |
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| | Soviet Union - free-definition |
| | Revolutionary activity in Russia began with the Decembrist Revolt, uncovered in 1825, and although serfdom was abolished in 1861, its abolition was achieved on terms unfavorable to the peasants and served to encourage revolutionaries. | | | The highest government legislative body was the Supreme Soviet. | | | The leader of the Communist Party was the General Secretary. |
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| | The Communist Party, the Executive, and Ukraine's Approaching Election |
| | The Constitutional Court's December 2001 ruling was the result of a motion submitted by 139 left-wing deputies as far back as 23 January 1997. | | | Support for the KPU during the 1990s has declined from approximately 30 percent to 20 percent of the electorate, and is drawn mainly from pensioners and veterans (former Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc is the first Ukrainian political force to be more popular than the KPU). | | | First, on 29 December 2001 the Constitutional Court rejected as unconstitutional a decade-old ban on the KPU and stated that only the courts have the power to declare political parties illegal. |
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| | Ernwest Germain: Purge of Soviet Culture (1949) |
| | The Stalinist dictatorship, like all police tyrannies, had to virtually lose all sense of humor for the leaders of the USSR not to be aware of the terrible discreditment they have brought upon themselves. | | | Professor N. Korobkov (Trud, September 2, 1947) explains that the formation by the Czars of a centralized and strong pluri-national state constituted historic progress and that “Moscow’s correct policy facilitated the rallying of economic, military and administrative elements whose task was to defend” this state. | | | Two-thirds of the members and candidates today were recruited since the outbreak of the war, that is, under conditions where educational work was almost at a standstill. |
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| | Communist party, in China |
| | (Zhao Ziyang is nominated Chinese Communist Party's general secretary) (The New Leader) | | | Communist party, in China: Civil War - Civil War In Apr., 1927, Chiang Kai-shek drove the Communists, led by Zhou Enlai, from Shanghai and... | | | Communist party, in China: Ruling Party - Ruling Party After the People's Republic of China was set up in 1949, the party became the... |
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| | Geneva Conference on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Geneva.The summit between Ronald REAGAN, the American President and Mikhail GORBACHEV, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR. | | | The summit between Ronald REAGAN, the American President and Mikhail GORBACHEV, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR.Ronald REAGAN with his wife Nanc (MAP5729) | | | The summit between Ronald REAGAN, the American President and Mikhail GORBACHEV, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR.Ronald Reagan with his wife, Nan (MAP5732) |
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| | USSR Ministers |
| | 1990-91 Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the USSR | | | 1990-91 Secretary of the Central Committee and Member of the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party | | | She was Central Committee Secretary for Light and Consumer Industries until 1986, 1988-90 Candidate-Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the USSR |
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| | Comments for: Friday night topic: Socialism lives? - ja.zz |
| | The Communist party in the USSR was a morally bankrupt and destructive political organization. | | | You have to seperate communism the economic model and Communist, the USSR political party. | | | Back when the Berlin wall had just fallen, the USSR had collapsed, and the Democrats' deadlock on the House had been broken... |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Play President of the (Defunct) Communist Party of the USSR for a Day! Part I |
| | When we visited the region, we explained we were going to cover the presidential elections (there was only one candidate--the president himself, Vladislav Ardzimba). | | | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Play President of the (Defunct) Communist Party of the USSR for a Day! | | | Even before the outbreak of a civil war in 1992, visits by foreigners to Abkhazia were discouraged -- the primary reason being the region was home during the Soviet era to several military and research facilities, including a unique institute where they (allegedly) tested various hideous diseases on monkeys and other primates. |
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| | FSU new issues - USSR - 1976 - 25th Communist Party Congress. |
| | FSU new issues - USSR - 1976 - 25th Communist Party Congress. | | | This page is a part of the FSU New Issues Catalogue, maintained by the Worldwide Society of Russian Philately | | | Size of the stamp: 26 x 37 mm. |
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| | Chadwyck-Healey |
| | Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State | | | Fond 17 Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR Opis 1 Central Committee of the Communist Party [RSDRP(b)] 1903-17 Dela 1-321 (5 reels) Reel nos. | | | Copyright © 2002 Proquest Information and Learning Company. |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Play President of the (Defunct)Communist Party of the USSR for a Day! Part II |
| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Play President of the (Defunct)Communist Party of the USSR for a Day! | | | A grand piano (out of tune, of course) takes up most the floor space there, whereas one would want to put the thing on the ground floor, in a party room, perhaps. | | | The library area on the top floor has enough shelf-space for an encyclopedia collection, maybe, but no easy chair. |
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