Ротация Первых Секретарей Региональных Комитетов Вкп(б) В 1946–1952 Гг.: Масштабы, Причины, Механизмы
Rotation of First Secretaries of Regional Committees of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) in 1946–1952: Scale, Causes, Mechanisms

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the scale, causes and mechanisms of rotation of party provincial committee first secretaries in the postwar period (1946–1952). The source base of this a research are documents of governing bodies of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) and its divisions that engaged in personnel work. The study revealed that rotation of the regional leadership was significant, but in 1946–1952 it was updated by about a third. This rotation was largely reduced to the movement of the secretaries from one region to another and from the region to the center and back. Similarly, the problem of the lack of qualified managers was tried. Until the end of 1948 the Central Committee restrained the rotation of obkom first secretaries. In 1949–1952 the personnel rotation was very intensive as the center sought to update the regional leadership, mobilize it to solve current economic problems and prepare for the XIX Party Congress. In some cases, the center replaced not only the first secretary, but also the entire leadership of the region. In the postwar years, such purges were at least two dozen, but only four turned into repression.

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