Social selection of the NEP: Criteria, Mechanisms, Curiosities (based on documents of the personnel purge commission led by the Municipal Economy Depa Cover Image

Социальный отбор времен НЭПа: критерии, механизмы, курьезы (по материалам комиссии по «чистке» личного состава Отдела коммунального хозяйства Петрог
Social selection of the NEP: Criteria, Mechanisms, Curiosities (based on documents of the personnel purge commission led by the Municipal Economy Depa

Author(s): E. A. Kirillova
Subject(s): History
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: Petrograd Provincial Executive Committee; Department of municipal economy; personnel policy; Commission of personnel purge

Summary/Abstract: he article, based on previously unknown archival documents, investigates little-studied problem: “purge” in Soviet institutions in the early 1920s. Special attention is given to the principles and criteria by which employees were selected in the process of “purge”. It concludes that employees are determined to dismissal primarily by social origin, followed by political unreliability, then — professional impropriety. Class principle of selection is not always acted.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 202-211
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian