title: Communist Party of Bolsheviks as a Soviet Social Elevator in the Context of the New Economic Policy
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metadata.value: Morozova, T. I.
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metadata.value: Shishkin, V. I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T12:21:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T12:21:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Morozova T. I., Shishkin V. I. ‘Communist Party of Bolsheviks as a Soviet Social Elevator in the Context of the New Economic Policy’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 4, 2020, pp. 902– 932.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/24323
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The authors analyze and interpret the processes that occurred during the New Economic Policy
  (NEP) period in the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) (RCP(b)) — All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
  (AUCP(b)) as a “social elevator” from the standpoint of the theory of social mobility. The article takes into account
  the achievements of national historiography and is based on a wide range of published and unpublished sources.
  The authors reveal conditions that the party leadership imposed on those who wanted to “enter” the elevator; the
  number and social composition of replacements; the mechanisms, instruments, and procedures used to carry
  out movements between floors, as well as the volume of these movements; the transformation of the party as a
  social elevator; and its impact on mobility in Soviet society. The authors conclude that, thanks to the mass recruitment
  of workers, the height of the party pyramid quickly increased, and its structure and profile became more
  complex, which increased the potential for internal mobility. The forced promotion of young Communists into
  leading party bodies and the expansion of the number of party committees artificially caused upward intra-party
  mobility and the formation of a new generation of middle-level elites. The use of the nomenklatura system for
  appointing to the upper floors of the party hierarchy completed the process of rebuilding the RCP(b) — AUCP(b)
  as a social elevator controlled by Stalin’s Central Committee. As a result, by the end of NEP, the party’s influence
  social stratification in Soviet society became decisive.
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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 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: New Economic Policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Communist party
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party leadership
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social elevator
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mobility
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nomenclature system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: elite
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Communist Party of Bolsheviks as a Soviet Social Elevator in the Context of the New Economic Policy
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metadata.value: Article
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