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Nomenklatura: The Soviet Communist Party's Leadership Recruitment System

Bohdan Harasymiw · Canadian Journal of Political Science 2(4), 493–512 · 1969

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Article
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Bohdan Harasymiw
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DOI 10.1017/S0008423900025440

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EstablishedIn the Soviet nomenklatura system, the Communist Party listed the leading posts in all sectors of public life and the people it considered eligible for them, so that it controlled public bodies by controlling their personnel.