By Peter J. Potichnyj
This assortment is derived from the 3rd international Congress for Soviet and East ecu reports, and gives an up to date and complete survey of up to date Soviet political and fiscal difficulties. It concentrates upon 3 significant issues; the Soviet get together apparat, socialization and political discourse, and social coverage, all which were the topic of substantial and from time to time complicated fluctuations in past times decade. the 1st part specializes in occasion association in the Soviet ministries, and examines the alterations in the elite over the past years of Brezhnev's rule. partly 2 the emphasis is upon techniques of political socialization, and the character of political language within the Soviet Union, when within the concluding half the individuals research the mechanism and impression of social coverage, and its ethnic and nationalist implications.
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For one thing, unless the carefully selected, newly trained recruits are placed in senior positions immediately, they may well be acculturated to the norms of the apparat by those who worked up to supervisory positions under Brezhnev's generation, who in turn were trained by those of the Stalin era. 70 In these circumstances, being open and responsive to a public that may in any case be pretty indifferent may ultimately be given a back seat. 72 However, until very recently in practice little additional action was taken to back up the rhetoric, apart from the replacement of established cadres by younger apparatchiki.
Administrative procedures have always recognized and catered for the narrow interests of these organizations, in particular the requirement that all documents going to executive bodies for decision be examined first by all interested parties (vizirovanie). 3 It is the role of the party to oversee and put to good use the sectional units of the political and administrative system. While the concept of the "vanguard" party with its "leading role" was not devised by Lenin as an administrative principle for use in government, it has proved to be very applicable to such a situation.
25 Thus when it comes to the crunch - and a crunch is always just around the corner - the ministry, and its PPO, will be expected to interfere to whatever degree is necessary. It is an expectation which quickly produces a permanent habit. However, it is noteworthy that in this period, immediately after the reestablishment of the ministries and at the time of a strong anti-supplanting campaign, ministry PPOs seemingly engaged in the habit with relative impunity. Another area in which the role of PPOs was stressed, although it should be said at a significantly lower level than apparatus-enterprise relations, was in scientific and technical progress.
