title: The First General Purge of the RCP(b) in 1921: Institutional and Human Dimensions (Basing on Archival Material of the Vyatka Gubernia)
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metadata.value: Timkin, Yu. N.
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metadata.value: 2022-06-30T10:36:43Z
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metadata.value: 2022-06-30T10:36:43Z
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metadata.value: Timkin Yu. N. ‘The First General Purge of the RCP(b) in 1921: Institutional and Human Dimensions (Basing on Archival Material of the Vyatka Gubernia)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 109–126.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37026
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metadata.value: In June 1921, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a decision
  on the first general purge of the party and for the period August 1 — October 1. The party organizations set as a
  goal to free themselves from all “clinging” members who pursued selfish material or other interests. The subject of the study is the analysis of the organization, conduct, and results of the purge in the Vyatka provincial organization
  of the party, as well as a socio-psychological portrait of those expelled after the purge. The work uses archival
  sources and the principle of historicism, methods of historical institutionalism, and case studies. It turned out that
  the purge took place at a later date, from September to November 1921, which indicated both the weakness of
  party discipline and low level of party organization. The number of excluded and expelled members was much
  more than in the whole country, which was due to the non-proletarian composition of the organization, the crisis
  at the beginning of the NEP, and the nature of the attitude of peasant communists to NEP. The main result of the
  purge was an increase in more disciplined and executive party members who believe in the ideals of communism.
  Nevertheless, the purge did not reach its goal, since the crisis in the party organizations of the province kept
  growing. In the 1922–1924, many county-level organizations whose members were purged found themselves in
  a state of deep disintegration and were again subjected to purges.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Vyatka gubernia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: RCP(b)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party committees
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: purge
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The First General Purge of the RCP(b) in 1921: Institutional and Human Dimensions (Basing on Archival Material of the Vyatka Gubernia)
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metadata.value: Article
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