title: Promoting Leningrad Cadres in the First Post-War Years
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metadata.value: Fedorov, Aleksei N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:06:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:06:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Fedorov A. N. Promoting Leningrad Cadres in the First Post-War Years. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 2, рp. 393–408. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.206 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41701
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the mechanism, scale and reasons for promoting Leningrad cadres to
  central and regional bodies in 1946–1949. The prevailing opinion in Russian historiography
  is that during the first post-war years, hundreds of executives from Leningrad received
  significant posts in Moscow and different regions of the country thanks to A. A. Kuznetsov.
  The study of personnel policies of the 1940s reveals that A. A. Kuznetsov, as the head of the
  Cadre Department of the Central Committee, was responsible for the preparation of issues
  concerning cadres, but the decisions were made by the Secretariat and Politburo. The country’s
  top leadership, and especially J. V. Stalin, carefully controlled all key personnel reshuffles, so
  A. A. Kuznetsov could not freely promote his people. An analysis of the archival documents
  shows that there was no large-scale expansion of Leningrad cadres in the first post-war
  years. In 1945–1948, only 20–30 people from Leningrad annually received high positions. In
  contrast to appointees from other regions, they more often headed obkoms and oblispolkoms,
  and yet their share in the regional leadership of the USSR was small. The active promotion
  of Leningrad leaders was primarily due to the fact that many of them had university degrees
  and solid managerial experience. The Central Committee tried to overcome the shortage
  of qualified middle-ranking managers with the help of Leningraders, as well as employees
  of central and metropolitan departments. For the same reason, some regional leaders were
  also interested in Leningraders. The promotion of Leningrad cadres continued even when
  G. M. Malenkov became again responsible for their selection and was stopped only because of
  the “Leningrad affair”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. Kuznetsov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad affair
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nomenclature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-war period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: regional leadership
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Committee of the CPSU
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Promoting Leningrad Cadres in the First Post-War Years
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metadata.value: Article
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