Gaël-Georges Moullec

Constructing the Soviet Elite (eBook, ePUB)

Recruitments, Exclusions, and Repressions Within the Soviet Communist Party, 1917-1941

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Produktbeschreibung

The Soviet Communist Party faced a large-scale problem of regulating membership after the Russian Revolution of 1917. While recruitments were conducted mainly according to the internal Party rules, exclusion campaigns were periodically adopted to ensure ideological purity. In the decades before World War II, these reviews took various forms from mere administrative re-registration to violent purges that involved hundred of thousands of arrests among Party members. The so-called Great Purge of 1937-1939 implicitly recognized the failure of the party's original policy of recruitment and promotion, and of the inability of the Party's political leadership to influence membership.

Although the Great Purge proved tragic, its implementation revealed great preparation and almost daily membership management. As surprising as it may seem, the statistics on membership movements (accessions, expulsions, etc.) were never as well kept as they were from 1937 to 1939. After the Great Purge, a new and more intellectual membership rose to power. This generation presided over the destiny of the Soviet Union until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The innovative character of Gaël-Georges Moullec's study lies in the use of unpublished archival sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academica Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781680536959
• Artikelnr.: 64132187

Autorenporträt

Gaël-Georges Moullec, PhD in contemporary history and qualified to supervise research (HDR), is a specialist in Russian history and the international communist movement. He is currently an Associate researcher at the Centre for Research on Economies, Societies, Arts and Techniques (CRESAT) at the University of Haute-Alsace.

His publications include:

1) Au-delà du sacrifice, les partisans soviétiques en France (1942-1946) (Beyond Sacrifice : Soviet Partisans in France (1942-1946), Presses universitaires Rhin et Danube, 2025.

2) Vladimir Poutine, Discours 2007-2022 (Vladimir Putin, Speeches 2007-2022), SPM, 2024.

3) Ukraine, la fin des illusions (Ukraine, the end of illusions), SPM, 2024.

4) Trois instants de printemps, le renseignement diplomatique soviétique dans la France gaulliste (Three moments of spring, Soviet diplomatic intelligence in Gaullist France), Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, 2020.

5) Moscou 1917. Les rapports d'Albert Remes, consul du Royaume de Belgique (Moscow 1917. The reports of Albert Remes, Consul of the Kingdom of Belgium), SPM, 2020.