title: Non-Party Citizens Joining to the Russian Communist Party during the Civil War and NEP: Phenomenon of the Inspired Mobility
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metadata.value: Morozova, T. I.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Shishkin, V. I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-05-15T15:44:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-05-15T15:44:10Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Morozova T. I., Shishkin V. I. Non-Party Citizens Joining to the Russian Communist Party during the Civil War and NEP: Phenomenon of the Inspired Mobility, Modern History of Russia, no. 1, 2017. P. 31–50.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6293
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article describes the mass Party-call campaigns of non-party citizens within the Russian Communist
  Party (bolsheviks) — All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks), implemented in RSFSR and after in USSR.
  For the first time this method of replenishing of the Communist Party has been introduced in the end 1919 and was
  named a “Party’s Week”. Later, the most famous and large-scale versions became “Lenin’s call” in 1924, and the
  “October call” in the end of 1927 — beginning of 1928. Similarities in the main goals — increase of the number
  of Party members and, at the same time, change of its social composition — let us consider these campaigns
  as the same phenomena that had continuity and internal unity. In the article, for the first time in the Russian historiography
  “Party’s Weeks”, “Lenin’s call” and the October call for joining the Party are considered through the
  prism of social mobility, intentionally inspired by the central government. The article analyzes circumstances and
  reasons that stated necessity and possibility for using mass Party calls, and the objectives of these campaigns,
  mechanisms and tools, and the results of these campaigns. The article states that from October 1919 to January
  1928 about half a million of citizens joined the Communist Party. A hypothesis is made that the mobility inspired
  by the government was a type of social engineering. Such mobility was unstable because it focused strictly on
  the social rank and file who had a low level of general and political literacy and culture, and wasn’t characterized
  by constructive social activity. As a result, thousands of citizens, who joined the Party, didn’t manage to stay in
  it, exited or were excluded. The latter circumstance significantly reduced the efficiency of mass Party-call campaigns
  and prompted the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) to abandon this method of
  replenishing the communist ranks.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда (проект № 14-18-01725).
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: Modern History of Russia;Issue 1(18)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Communist party
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “Party’s Weeks”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lenin’s call
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: October call
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social mobility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: inspired mobility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Non-Party Citizens Joining to the Russian Communist Party during the Civil War and NEP: Phenomenon of the Inspired Mobility
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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