... Alexeyevna Furtseva, a member of the Politburo. On October 29 she danced in Tula, the same day the Bolshoi team was doing Swan Lake in London. ballet Moscow Bolshoi Theater London Nikita Khrushchev Swan Lake Ekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva Politburo Tula The Bolshoi's “first team...

... immediately after he passed away. The first occurred in 1949, when prominent Politburo members were removed from direct ministerial responsibilities. The second change, announced at the Nineteenth Party Congress in October 1952, was the abolition of the Politburo of eleven men and its replacement...

...This chapter examines Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin's vaunted attempt for ascendancy based on the Politburo transcripts. The analysis of the transcripts indicates that Stalin was a master tactician when faced with opposition and resistance among his comrades, and knew to back off and show...

...This chapter analyzes the transcript of the November 4, 1930 joint session of the Politburo and the Presidium of the Central Control Commission on the Syrtsov–Lominadze affair. The analysis indicates that the dismal failures of forced collectivization raised serious questions in the middle levels...

...This chapter analyzes the transcripts of the October 8 and 21, 1926, and September 9, 1927 Politburo meetings. It explains that these meetings focused on the Communist Party's attempts to discipline the United Opposition, and highlights how Joseph Stalin was able to linguistically transform certain...

...This chapter analyzes the transcript of the January 2, 1927 Politburo meeting that focused on the setting of prices, and explains that discussion revolved around the so-called scissor crisis, which involved relatively high industrial prices that inhibited the production of agricultural goods...

...In this book, Western and Russian scholars examine the “lost” transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. Never intended for publication or wide distribution...

...This chapter discusses the various mechanisms and phases of the social and the nationality operations in Stalinist Russia. The “mass operations” of 1937 and 1938 under order 00447 are described. The mass operations were ended by the Politburo when Lavrentii Beria and Iosif Stalin planned to weaken...

...This chapter analyzes the transcript of the November 27, 1932 joint session of the Politburo and Presidium of the Central Control Commission. It explains that the meeting was called to expose the Smirnov–Eismont–Tolmachev affair, an alleged conspiracy of members of the Communist Party unhappy...

...This chapter analyzes the transcript of the October 11 and 12, 1938 Politburo meetings. It explains that these meetings focused on the publication of the Short Course: The History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), which was published to erase the role of the Old...

... cover repression within the Politburo; Stalin's old and new comrades-in-arms; and the breakdown of the old decision-making system and the creation of a new one. Great Terror arrests and convictions Ordzhonikidze Grigory Sergo Konstantinovich advocacy of forced industrialization Politburo archival...

... not support the theory that there were factions within the Politburo. The conduct of both large-scale repressive measures and reforms was based on Stalin's proposals (or, in most cases, on his orders). Oligarchy Stalinization consolidation of dictatorship Collective leadership NKVD People's Commissariat...

...This chapter examines the crisis years of 1931–1933. At the same time that the Stalinist leadership was turning to terror, it was also making inconsistent attempts at reform. The swings between liberalization and terror, which had their origins in the Politburo, provide an opportunity to study...

... and its allies—largely determined the direction of Stalinist policy. On 19 December 1933 the Politburo adopted a highly classified resolution concerning the possibility of membership in the League of Nations and concluded regional mutual defense pacts with a number of Western countries in case of German...

...This chapter discusses changes in the makeup and activities of the Politburo, as well as political trends following Sergei Kirov's murder, which Stalin used as an excuse to eliminate his former political opponents—the leaders and members of the opposition movements active in the 1920s and early...

... shifted away from the urban areas and increasingly to the rural areas of the Soviet Union. The numbers of political police increased as a result of their broadened functions. OGPU officials fought for the socialist state and the Communist Party. Starting in 1933, and throughout the 1930s, the Politburo...

... tasks given to the Soviet political police by the Politburo and to establish a new cadre of Chekists. In addition, it reveals that the first of a series of ethnic deportations by the NKVD in the late summer of 1941 marked the war years. Communist Party and authority of police and security organs...

...This chapter discusses the insights into the history of the Soviet Union and the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin provided by the previously inaccessible verbatim transcripts (or stenograms) of Politburo meetings during the 1920s and 1930s. It explains that the stenograms provide information about...

...This chapter examines the origins of the Politburo transcripts and the way they fit with the other documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from the interwar period. It suggests that the Politburo used the transcripts to circulate information from the inner circle of party leaders...

...This chapter analyzes the transcript of the June 3, 1926 Politburo meeting. The analysis suggests that the British General Strike of May 1926 served as a lightning rod for the Bolsheviks' differences over foreign policy in the 1920s. The chapter explains that Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, and Lev...