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

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

3 Structures

4 1922 politburo LENIN P.M. KAMENEV MOSCOW TROTSKY in a sulk
STALIN GEN SEC ZINOVIEV PETROGRAD RYKOV DEPUTY P.M. TOMSKY Trade Unions

5 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

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7 1957 PRESIDIUM KHRUSHCHEV 8 PARTY SEC. USSR P.M. and Dep. P.M.
RUSSIA P.M. H o S KAZAKHSTAN Ukraine CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION

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

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

10 1966 Politburo Brezhnev Gen Sec Kosygin PM Podgorny HoS
3 CC secs [inc Suslov] party control Ukraine Russia

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