The high title of a Communist : postwar party discipline and the values of the Soviet regime /

Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated for misconduct by local party organizations and then reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. Party leaders viewed these investigations as a form of moral education a...

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Main Author: Cohn, Edward (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: DeKalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Communist Party and its system of internal discipline in the postwar years
  • The last purge ; the expulsion of POWs and Communists who lived on occupied territory
  • De-Stalinizing party discipline ; purging and politics in postwar expulsion cases
  • Policing the party : corruption, administrative misconduct, and control from above in postwar party discipline
  • Sex and the married communist : family troubles and marital ifidelity in the postwar Communist Party
  • "We talk a lot, but take very few measures" : the party's struggle with drunkenness among it members.