Thomas Rigby. Communist Party Membership in the U.S.S.R., 1917-1967.

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE

CPSU Membership History

1 – From Revolutionary Underground to State Party

2 – Victory—and a Purge

3 – The Lenin Enrollment

4 – Proletarianization Slackens

5 – Proletarianization Renewed—and Ended

6 – Enter the New Elite

7 – World War II: Party and Army

8 – Postwar Consolidation

9 – The Khrushchev Enrollment

10 – A Party of the Whole People

PART TWO

Some Special Aspects

11 – Turnover, Age and Sex

12 – Nationality

13 – Party Membership and Education

14 – A Representative Elite?

15 – Driving Belts

16 – Geographical Distribution

Conclusion: Determinants of CPSU Composition

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