POLITBURO APPROX COPYRIGHT HUGO REPRODUCTION NOTICE VICTORIOUS COUP THE BOLSHEVIKS THE NEED STRUCTURE RUN THE EIGHTH PARTY CONGRESS SENIOR CENTRAL ACT ON MATTERS URGENT FULL LARS PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM THE PARTY CONGRESSES MEETING CHOSE THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TURN PRIME MINISTER SOURCES LEONARD THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION RANDOM APPENDIX RICHARD PIPES RUSSIA BOLSHEVIK ALFRED OLEG LETTERS YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN JEAN VLADIMIR ROBERT CONQUEST THE GREAT TERROR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS VIEW PHOTOS CLERICAL ERROR NAME SOMEWHAT POWER BACKGROUND ACCESSION DATE CANDIDATE MEMBER FULL MEMBER REASON DEPARTURE DATES BIRTH DEATH FOUNDER LEADER PARTY NATURAL RED ARMY UNITED OPPOSITION 20 AUG ASSASSINATED IN MEXICO NKVD MOSCOW ORGANIZATION TRIED SHOT NIKOLAJ SECRETARIAT MODERATE CHAIRMAN COMINTERN BOSS PETERBURG 13TH CONGRESS COLLECTIVIZATION VYACHESLAV STALIN FAILED KHRUSHCHOV FIGUREHEAD PEASANT ORIGIN RESTORED BUKHARIN 14 MAR FORCED SUICIDE VALERIAN TROTSKYISM AFTER DEATH CANONIZED FELIKS 11 SEP ARMY 14TH CONGRESS TRADE UNIONS SECONDED UKRAINIAN SSR GOVERNMENT AS ONE TSARIST PLENARY SESSION EFFECTIVE AMBIVALENTLY POPULAR CHARISMATIC SECRET ANASTAS BRUTAL MANAGER VLAS PRESUMED EXECUTED ANDREJ 15TH CONGRESS AGRICULTURAL POLICY STANISLAV PARTY BOSS SCAPEGOAT RETREAT 16TH CONGRESS ECONOMIC POLICIES SECRETLY REPRESSED PAVEL 17TH CONGRESS ROBERT DIED IN PRISON NIKITA ORCHESTRATED STALINIST FULL MEMBERS MALENKOV BULGANIN KOSYGIN MAKSIM ALEKSANDR PRESIDIUM SIMILAR MEMBERSHIP SPECULATE THAT THAT GREAT LEADER TEACHER REPLACE OLDER MARKED REPRESSION THE GREAT SMALLER CONFIRMED BELOW UNLESS MARCH 1953 ASTERISK ACTUALLY PERVUKHIN MIKHAIL GEORGIJ KONSTANTINOVICH ZHUKOV LEONID ILICH BREZHNEV DIMITRIJ SHEPILOV EKATERINA FURTSEVA FROL ROMANOVICH KOZLOV BORISOVICH BELYAEV OTTO KUUSINEN PETR POSPELOV PAVLOVICH VIKTOROVICH RETURN HOME PAGE CYBER USSR