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To Be or Not to Be in the Party

Communist Party Membership in the USSR

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Yuri Glazov

    1. Department of Russian, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Part of the book series: Sovietica (SOVA, volume 54)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 1-12

  3. Why do People join the Communist Party?

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 13-41

  4. The Top Hierarchy of Party Members

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 42-57

  5. The Middle-Level Party Layer

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 58-89

  6. The Rank and File of the Party

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 90-104

  7. Expulsion from the Party

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 105-140

  8. Women in the Party

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 141-158

  9. Non-Party Members

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 159-179

  10. The Party and the KGB

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 180-192

  11. The Party as a Myth

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 193-205

  12. The People’s Attitudes and the Future of the Party

    • Yuri Glazov
    Pages 206-213

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 214-235
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In March of 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Seviet Union. Initially, one could discern serious changes in the policy and statements of this new, young, and obviously efficient leader only with great difficulty. While abroad, Gorbachev had said that anti-Stalinism was a form of anti-Communism. The newspapers were filled with words lauding "the sacred traditions of the 1930's". At the same time, the campaign against drunkenness, corruption, and sloppiness launched by Yuri Andropov was given a new impetus and the highest Party support. In April, 1986, the Chernobyl tragedy took place. The first reaction of the Soviet authorities was the usual one. The Soviet public was not properly informed about the disaster and its unprecedented peril. Millions of jubilant Soviet citizens crowded the squares and streets of Kiev and Minsk during the May Day festivities. We can only guess what the reaction of the Kremlin authorities would have been had not Swedish scientists traced and announced to the world the threatening level of radioactivity. Would the terms "glasnost'" and "perestrojka" have spread through the world press with such intensity and alacrity? A popular Soviet author wrote a year later in the Soviet media: "Chernobyl appeared to be not only a national event, a disaster shared by each of us, but also a dividing line between two eras of time.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Russian, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Yuri Glazov

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: To Be or Not to Be in the Party

  • Book Subtitle: Communist Party Membership in the USSR

  • Authors: Yuri Glazov

  • Series Title: Sovietica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2963-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2716-9Due: 31 May 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2717-6Published: 31 May 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2963-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0561-2551

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 235

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general

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