title: Weak Secretaries: How the Central Committee Assessed the Professionalism of Soviet Regional Leaders in 1946–1948
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metadata.value: Fеdorov, A. N.
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metadata.value: 2022-09-19T12:19:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-19T12:19:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.value: Fеdorov A. N. ‘Weak Secretaries: How the Central Committee Assessed the Professionalism of Soviet Regional Leaders in 1946–1948’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 2, 2022, pp. 416– 436.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2022.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37805
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metadata.value: The article explores the reasons, course, and results of studying the professional qualities of the first
  secretaries of regional party committees in 1946–1948. This survey was prompted by the desire of the Soviet
  top leadership in the first post-war years to improve regional leadership and thereby increase the efficiency of
  the management system. For this purpose, the Cadres department of the Central Committee of the AUCP(b)
  compiled special characteristics for the first secretaries of obkom, kraikom and republican committees, which
  included an assessment of their organizational skills and career prospects. The assessment of these leaders was
  not based on the usual formal criteria (education level, political training and work experience), but according to
  the fulfillment of the center’s tasks, leadership style and authority among local managers. In the opinion of the
  Central Committee, the ability to establish work of the party apparatus and normal relations with local managers
  allowed regional leaders to cope with their duties. Despite the weak analysis of the data, vague assessment criteria
  and their arbitrary application, softening and correcting the estimates, disappointing results were obtained.
  It turned out that many of the first secretaries of regional party committees did not have elementary managerial
  skills, practiced a dictatorial leadership style, and chronically failed to perform economic tasks. Based on this, it
  was necessary to replace half of the regional leaders, but Cadres department of the Central Committee proposed to dismiss only 10 % of the first secretaries and keep at work another 20 % due to short-term retraining. Nevertheless,
  in 1946–1948, even such modest plans could not be implemented due to the lack of a cadre reserve, and
  therefore the renewal of the corps of regional leaders was delayed until the early 1950s.
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
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Committee of the CPSU(b)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personnel
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: first secretaries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party committees
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party organs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: regional leadership
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-war period
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: late Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Weak Secretaries: How the Central Committee Assessed the Professionalism of Soviet Regional Leaders in 1946–1948
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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