title: Power and Corruption: The “Chelyabinsk Leaders” Privileged Life in the Second Half of the 1940s
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metadata.value: Sushkov, A. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:34:47Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:34:47Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Sushkov A. V. ‘Power and Corruption: The “Chelyabinsk Leaders” Privileged Life in the Second Half of the 1940s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018, pp. 99–115.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9301
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metadata.value: In the early postwar years, leaders of the Chelyabinsk region sought to significantly expand the privileges
  that they had been given by the Supreme authorities. Yet still in the years of the war, regional authorities
  withdrew an agricultural farm from the healthcare system and subordinated it so that its produce did not serve
  hospitals and sanatoriums but fed the members of the regional authorities. After the war, at the expense of illegally
  obtained incomes from the agricultural farm and also from the secret fund of the Chairman of the Executive Committee,
  the “Chelyabinsk leaders” equipped and maintained luxury villas, arranged banquets and free lunches
  for themselves, paid for apartments and got illegal cash benefits. They also planned to start up a luxury vacation
  site near Chelyabinsk with hunting-fishing facilities. The way to the “beautiful life” of the Chelyabinsk authorities
  was blocked by the Director of the agricultural farm who openly and actively opposed to the illegal transfers of
  funds and advocated for the return of this farm to the healthcare system. The leaders of the Executive Committee
  initially tried to persuade the much too principled and zealous Director, then moved on to intimidation and
  eventually began to seek his conviction on criminal charges. After a period of hard confrontation the Director was
  dismissed, his complaints to the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) and the USSR Prosecutor’s Office remained
  without proper attention. Only when the Management of the Affairs of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) had
  established the fact that over a few years the authorities of the Chelyabinsk region illegally provided themselves
  with food products and did not pay for housing and utilities, when the Party Control Commission under the Central
  Committee of the CPSU(b) declared them guilty, reprimanded and ordered to pay damages, the complaints of
  the Director of the farm were admitted to further proceedings.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
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 8; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. A. Beloborodov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. V. Zaikin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: corruption
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chelyabinsk region
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Party and State System of Power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Late Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Power and Corruption: The “Chelyabinsk Leaders” Privileged Life in the Second Half of the 1940s
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metadata.value: Article
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