scholarly journals „Atgimimo banga“ Challenge to Soviet Mass media: Reform Movement of Lithuania (Sąjūdis) Telecast as „Open Protest Field“ in Time of Political Changes (1988 June– 1990 March)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 135-170
Author(s):  
Tomas Vaitelė
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Political System ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Broadcast Time ◽  
Political Message ◽  
Council Of Ministers

During the Soviet occupation, the whole Lithuanian SSR media was regarded as one of the key propaganda tools based on pure ideological content and socialist-communist messages. In such a media setting television played an essential role; together with radio (as in Moscow’s example) the latter felt under control of a committee ruled by the Council of Ministers (CM), Central Committee (CC) and Moscow patrons itself. But this situation was about to change when Sąjūdis (Reform Movement of Lithuania) came to public and tried to established its right to uncensored broadcast time via television for its own dissemination of information, which sometimes had a strong political message and was not in favour of ruling regime and party. Sąjūdis had a purpose which was totally new during Lithuanian SSR times since the start of television broadcasts in 1957 – it was uncensored broadcasting time. Based on archive sources, memoirs and press articles, this research focuses on the telecast “Atgimimo banga“ as one of the essential informational channels for Sąjūdis. This article tries to disclose its history, influence and conflicts between Sąjūdis and ruling regime, which tried to control and censor telecast’s content. Eventually, the sporadic telecast’s format had another effect: when in 1989 Sąjūdis became important part of the Lithuanian SSR political system, telecast’s popularity came to decline. One of the most popular perestroika time TV programs had some unfulfilled expectations, and, during the time, it made it as one of the most unpopular. The chronological boundaries of this research start at June of 1988, when Sąjūdis was created, and ends in March of 1990, when Lithuania declared its independence from Soviet Union.

Detection and treatment of patients with diabetes in sanatoriums and preventive clinics

1986 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
V. V. Talantov
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Patients With Diabetes ◽  
Central Council ◽  
Council Of Ministers

The relevance of the issues of balneology is determined by the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions "On measures for further improvement of sanatorium treatment and recreation of workers and the development of a network of health resorts of trade unions". High true prevalence of diabetes mellitus (up to 2.5%-4%) dictates the necessity of involving medical service of sanatoriums and preventive clinics in solving the main task of practical diabetology - in discovering the diabetic patients in initial stages of disease, in organizing proper treatment and rehabilitation of patients, in preventing diabetes mellitus.

scholarly journals Dismantling an Innovation: The November 1964 Decision Reunifying Industrial and Agricultural Organs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1985 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Barbara Ann Chotiner
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Political System ◽  
New Products ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Agricultural Organizations ◽  
Great Purges

Two years after the November 1962 decision to divide the Communist party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) into separate industrial and agricultural organs, the new Brezhnev-Kosygin leadership reunited the party. The reorganization was and remains the most fundamental reform of the Soviet political system since the Great Purges. Restructuring the CPSU "on the production principle" had divided party committees below the union-republican level into industrial and agricultural organizations. Raikoms and some gorkoms were abolished; territorial production kolkhozsovkhoz administration (TPA) party committees and zonal-industrial party committees were established. The CPSU Central Committee (CC) and its unionrepublican counterparts acquired specialized bureaus to oversee production in the different economic spheres. 1 As a result of the 1962 reorganization, party involvement in the economy became more frequent and more occupied with details of production. Moreover, partkoms' economic interventions became oriented primarily toward development and guidance through the restructuring of productive relationships, introducing new products and technology, and planning.

Personnel and Role in the Soviet Political System

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-328
Author(s):  
Nikolay Mitrokhin
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political System ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Social Achievement ◽  
Collective Biography ◽  
High Level ◽  
Governing Institutions

The article analyzes the functions of one of the most important groups of the Soviet bureaucracy. It is based on 120 oral interviews and memoirs of former staff members of the CPSU Central Committee apparatus. In the first part, a new understanding is put forward about the place the Central Committee apparatus occupied in the functioning of the central governing institutions in the Soviet Union in the Brezhnev period. Various specific and non-obvious functions carried out by the apparatus are also discussed. The second part reviews a collective biography of the Central Committee staff. In particular, the unexpectedly high level of social class and education of the Central Committee staff is noted, as well as their remarkable level of social achievement and fairly young age at the entry level into the CC apparatus. In this part several typical biographical patterns are - analyzed. In the third part, a comparison with the Western bureaucracy is attempted. In particular, a detailed analysis is made of the anti-corruption measures and means of formation of the corporate discipline in the CC apparatus. The most important difference is found in their respective cultural background, which in the Soviet case was formed by the secondary education they received during Stalin’s rule.

scholarly journals Construction Management South-Ukrainian and North-Crimean channels in 1950−1953

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Pavlo Viktorovych Satskyi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Socialist Republic ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Council Of Ministers

In the current article the analysis of the mechanisms of the providing of management of the building process of the Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimean channels in the command-administrative system of USSR during the late Stalinist period has been made. The building of Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimea channels had a particular political value for USSR in the beginning of 1950s, while the realization of this project was supposed to create the prerequisites for the economic development of the Southern regions of Ukraine (until 1954) and the Northern regions of the Crimea. The General Directorate 'Ukrvodstroy" of the Ministry of Cotton of USSR was supposed to be responsible for the building of the Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimean channels. However, the Ministry of Cotton as well as other union ministries turned out to be ineffective in the process of administering of "communism construction". On the other hand, the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were very effective in providing of the building of the Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimean channels. Due to the effective activity of the leadership of Ukrainian SSR related to the providing of the building of Southern-Ukrainian and Northern-Crimean channels, the revival of the social-economic development of the Crimea took place, particularly in the far end regions of the Crimea it happened due to the development of capital investments required for the program of channels building. Thus, the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Central Committee of Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine was actively expanding its territory competence on the territory of the Crimea.

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