"LENINGRAD CASE": ON SMOLNY’S PERSONNEL POLICY IN THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS
Sushkov Andrei Valer'evich, Bedel' Aleksandr Emanuilovich
Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Submitted: 24.08.2018
Abstract. The article examines the charges that were brought against the persons, who were involved in the so called "Leningrad case": appointment of "inner circle members" to official positions in the party and state system, violation of the principle to appoint staff members to administrative positions considering their professional competence. As the documents testify, during the proceedings the former and current for those times Leningrad authorities were subjected to detailed inspection. As a result, all sorts of compromising materials were discovered: dereliction of duty, occurrence of party penalties, praising "Leningrad leaders", corruption, hard drinking, and "moral corruption".
Key words and phrases: "ленинградское дело", партийно-государственная система власти, период "позднего сталинизма", коррупция, управленческие практики, "Leningrad case", party and state system, "late Stalinism" period, corruption, administrative practices
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