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The Political Institutions of Communism The USSR and the Peoples Republic of China

The Political Institutions of Communism The USSR and the Peoples Republic of China

Structures

1922 politburo LENIN P.M. KAMENEV MOSCOW TROTSKY in a sulk STALIN GEN SEC ZINOVIEV PETROGRAD RYKOV DEPUTY P.M. TOMSKY Trade Unions

PRESIDIUM post-STALIN MALENKOV Chair. C. of M. Beria Min Internal Affairs Molotov Min For. Aff Voroshilov Head of State Khrushchev Party Secretary Bulganin MoD Kaganovich Dep CofM 3 other ministers

1957 PRESIDIUM KHRUSHCHEV 8 PARTY SEC. USSR P.M. and Dep. P.M. RUSSIA P.M. H o S KAZAKHSTAN Ukraine CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION

Interests/Lobbies Military Heavy industry [“steeleaters”] Republics Party machine [apparatchiki] East Europe China non-ruling parties

Weak interests/lobbies Agriculture consumer/service industries intelligentsia diplomats broad party membership police? Navy pre-62

1966 Politburo Brezhnev Gen Sec Kosygin PM Podgorny HoS 3 CC secs [inc Suslov] party control Ukraine Russia