FORMATION OF THE POLITICAL ELITE IN THE MSSR (1944 -1945)
FORMATION OF THE POLITICAL ELITE IN THE MSSR (1944-1945)

Summary/Abstract: Abstract.P ersonnel policy in the USSR pursued the goal offorming a layer of “national cadres” dedicated to the cause of communism,the local leadership elite. Its direct conductor on the ground was therepublican party leadership, county, city and district party structures and theprimary party organizations subordinate to them in organizations andenterprises. After the war, control was also established over all of them inLithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova by specially created Bureaus of theCentral Committee of the All Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks foreach of these republics. The situation with per sonnel in the MSSR inMoscow was considered the most difficult of all those mentioned above.However, Moscow did not intend to directly control the republican powerstructures permanently. Local party leaders also had to take the initiative andtrain young cadres. For this purpose, in 1945, the Republican Party Schoolwas created in Chisinau under the Central Committee of the CommunistParty (b)M. The main sources of replenishment of the personnel reservewere also party, Komsomol, and trade union activists , production leaders,and authoritative team leaders.The main mistakes in the personnel policy of the Soviet periodwere considered to be the lack of people with higher education, especiallyspecialists in the field in which they worked, the presence of a large numberof vacant positions due to staff turnover, and the transfer of control overpersonnel training from Moscow to the leadership of the republics. Whenselecting personnel, the nationality of the applicant was taken into accountand often, especi ally in the first post war years, when there were fewMoldovans in the party bodies, the nationality of the applicant played adecisive role.

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