The Secretariat and the Local Organizations in the Russian Communist Party, 1921-1923
Robert V. Daniels
An acutely significant episode in the history of Soviet Russia, rendered no less important by perspective recent events, is development organizational machinery Communist Party years immediately following civil war. It was this period which witnessed true realization Lenin's prerevolutionary ideal monolithic party, despite paradox that model conspiratorial discipline designed for accomplishment revolution, not organization post-revolutionary society.
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