title: The Affair of the First Secretary of the Kaluga Regional Committee of the VKP(b): A Look at the Social Capital of the Kaluga Regional Leadership, 1944–1948
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metadata.value: Kometchikov, I. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T11:55:46Z
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metadata.value: 2021-11-08T11:55:46Z
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metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Kometchikov I. V. ‘The Affair of the First Secretary of the Kaluga Regional Committee of the VKP(b): A Look at the Social Capital of the Kaluga Regional Leadership, 1944–1948’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 3, 2021, pp. 723–737.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.310
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33458
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metadata.value: The article examines the demotion of the first secretary of I. Popov, the Kaluga regional committee of
  the CPSU. We examined records of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR,
  the Kaluga regional committee of the CPSU, and other regional authorities and recollections and letters of regional
  leaders. Based on that research, we analyzed the business and personal relations I. Popov had over the
  course of his almost three-year work in Kaluga, the level of distrust among Kaluga officials, sanctions for misconduct
  common in the bureaucratic sphere — that is, the overall state of social capital of the bureaucracy in Kaluga.
  Popov had been sent to the newly created Kaluga region after working as the Chair of the regional executive
  committee of Chkalovsk and at the Personnel Management Office. He failed to employ horizontal communication
  in the nascent Kaluga management to successfully restore the region’s economy. Popov constantly slighted
  key leaders of the regional administration, which prevented them from forming a trusting relationship and finding
  common ground when it came to the “style of managing” the region. This approach resulted in a high turnover rate
  of officials, the employment of extreme measures, the falsification of documents and misrepresentation which were considered the main factors impeding the development of the region by both Kaluga officials and the Central
  Committee of the CPSU. Popov gained quite a negative reputation in the Kaluga social circles by turning to
  favoritism and other tactics to illegally multiply his wealth. In the end he was discredited and demoted from the
  post of the first secretary of the Kaluga regional committee of the CPSU.
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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 11; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kaluga
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Regional Committee
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: CPSU
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social capital
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bureaucracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: capitalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet and party nomenclature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: class structure
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet society
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Affair of the First Secretary of the Kaluga Regional Committee of the VKP(b): A Look at the Social Capital of the Kaluga Regional Leadership, 1944–1948
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metadata.value: Article
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