Edward Cohn, "The High Title of a Communist: Postwar Party Discipline and the Values of the Soviet Regime"
English | ISBN: 0875804896 | 2015 | 260 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Between 1945 and 1964, six to seven million members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were investigated for misconduct by local party organizations and then reprimanded, demoted from full party membership, or expelled. Party leaders viewed these investigations as a form of moral education and used humiliating public hearings to discipline wrongdoers and send all Soviet citizens a message about how Communists should behave.