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High Stalinism
End of Stalin
Bear-Pit politics
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party makes no
decisions
or initiatives at policies as
Stalin
Makes all the decision
the role of the party is to oversee whatever
Stalin
wills - reconstruction, economic activity etc - select who gets into
government
roles
government officials
and
party members
didn't interact -
Stalin
was the in between and encouraged tensions so they wouldn’t work against him
polit
beaura
- rarely met in one group after great
patriotic
war
no party congress until
1952
Polit beaura
Made up of same people before Great War
Molotov, Beria, Kaganovich, Zhdanov, Mikoyan, Khrushchev, malenkov
stalin makes decision - they make detail
Stalin
creates rivalries
Malenkov
and
Zhdanov
were fierce rivals as they wanted to be favoured
Frustrated by Zhdanov being the favourite
Designed to make everyone feel incredibly uncomfortable
Practical jokes -
Mikolyan
wore suits -
Beria
put
tomatoes
in his pockets and squished them
Removed ceremonial sword for pickle
Beria stuck
prick
on Khrushchev’s back
People went to drink with
Stalin
one night an d arrested the next
members of
Polit Beauru
never felt secure in their positions