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...cracy would become concentrated within the Bolshevik party and later the [[politburo]] of the CPSU. [[Image:Serov-Lenin proclaims Soviet power.jpg|thumb|Lenin p

...n anti-Semites will quickly tell you how almost all members of [[Lenin]]'s Politburo were Jews. In other words, there is a stage of spontaneous ideology in the

...ations that each district had to fulfill (these quotas were decided by the Politburo in Moscow as a kind of mock production targets in central planning — say, ...gh "normal" authority and executive measures. In the Stalinist terror, the Politburo acted in panic, trying desperately to master and regulate the events, to ge

...n, the editor-in-chief, saw no [[reason]] to publish it; one member of the Politburo suggested that they print a single copy of the paper containing the text, a

...d never forget that, as the (now available) minutes of the meetings of the Politburo and Central Committee from the 1930s demonstrate, Stalin's direct intervent

...r some poison so that he could kill himself; Stalin took the matter to the Politburo, which voted against Lenin's [[wish]]. Lenin assumed that because he was no

...read the reports, how did Lenin succeed, against even the majority of the politburo? There was a tremendous low-level explosion. People down below wanted more.

...n anti-Semites will quickly tell you how almost all members of [[Lenin]]'s Politburo were Jews. In other words, there is a stage of spontaneous ideology in the

...read the reports, how did Lenin succeed, against even the majority of the politburo? There was a tremendous low-level explosion. People down below wanted more.

...the results of the mere 2 years of <i>yezhovshchina</i>: "Five of Stalin's Politburo colleagues were killed, and 98 out of 139 Central Committee members. Of the ...ant strand in the Great Terror's destruction of the elite. But in 1938 the Politburo changed alignments and reinforced the [[authority]] of the regional <i>Nome