Chapter 10. The Party Command – Politburo and Presidium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Tables xii
5. Charts xiii
6. PART ONE. The Pursuit of Power
7. Chapter 1. The Seedbed of Revolution 3
8. Chapter 2. Bolshevism before 1917 31
9. Chapter 3. The Road to Power 60
10. Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Power 87
11. PART TWO. The Role of the Party
12. Chapter 5. The Dictatorship of the Party in Theory and Practice 131
13. Chapter 6. The Growth of the Party Apparatus 176
14. Chapter 7. Party Organization, Activities, and Problems 209
15. Chapter 8. The Composition and Social Structure of the Party 246
16. Chapter 9. The Komsomol – Youth under Dictatorship 283
17. Chapter 10. The Party Command – Politburo and Presidium 307
18. PART THREE. Instruments of Rule
19. Chapter 11. Constitutional Myths and Political Realities 349
20. Chapter 12. The Control of the Bureaucracy – Public Administration in the Soviet Union 386
21. Chapter 13. Terror as a System of Power 421
22. Chapter 14. The Party and the Armed Forces 463
23. PART FOUR. Problems and Prospects
24. Chapter 15. Management and Labor in Soviet Industry 503
25. Chapter 16. Controls and Tensions in Soviet Agriculture 526
26. Chapter 17. The Soviet Political System – Problems and Prospects 577
27. APPENDIX. Khrushchevism in Retrospect 603
28. List of Readings, Notes, Index
29. A LIST OF SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS – CLASSIFIED BY TOPICS 619
30. NOTES 629
31. INDEX 675
32. Backmatter 699