УДК 930.23

EDN GEBBCX

 

Original article

 

Organization of Educational and Research Activities at Leningrad Higher Party School in 1965 — 1975

 

Lushin A. I., Shcherbina E. Y.

 

Abstract

Introduction. This article expands the existing knowledge about the activities of party schools in the Soviet Union and the conditions of the organization of training of Party-Soviet cadres. The author conducts the analysis in the context of historical events and processes of 1965 — 1975, which makes it possible to gain a deeper understanding of the activities of Leningrad Higher Party School (LHPS) and to offer fresh interpretations of the history of Party-Soviet cadre training. The problem of the study is to find an interpretative scheme for analyzing the activities of educational institutions related to the training of Soviet-Party cadres in the USSR.

Materials and methods. The study is based on the axiological approach, which focuses on analyzing the reasons for the functioning of political regimes, and analyzing archival documents of Leningrad Higher Party School, which have not been previously studied in the domestic literature.

Results and discussion. Leningrad Higher Party School as an educational organization providing training for Party-Soviet cadres was an intermediary institution in the maintenance of the political regime in the USSR. The implementation of this intermediation took place through three aspects: the formation of the organizational foundations of the activity of LHPS; the reproduction of historical memory, which included “scientific mimicry”; and elements of control in the organization of LHPS activity.

Conclusion. The study shows that the leadership and teaching staff of LHPS played an important role in the period of 1965 —1975 due to the frame formation for the professional training of Soviet­Party personnel, often acting autonomously from the directives of the CPSU.

Keywords: Leningrad Higher Party School, Soviet-Party cadres, higher education in the USSR, LHPS archive, political regime, Soviet political system, hegemony

For citation: Lushin AI, Shcherbina EY. Organization of Educational and Research Activities at Leningrad Higher Party School in 1965 — 1975. Bulletin of the Research Institute of the Humanities by the Government of the Republic of Mordovia. 2024;16(1):140—155. EDN GEBBCX

 

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The article was submitted 02.10.2023; approved after reviewing 25.12.2023; accepted for publication 28.12.2023.

 

Information about the authors:

Alexander I. Lushin, Professor of Department of Social Sciences of the North-West Institute of Management — Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (57 Sredny Avenue, Vasilievsky Island, St. Petersburg 199178, Russia), Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, lushinai@mail.ru

Elena Y. Shcherbina, Post-Graduate Student of Department of Social Sciences of the North-West Institute of Management — Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (57 Sredny Avenue, Vasilievsky Island, St. Petersburg 199178, Russia), eva770@mail.ru

 

Contribution of the authors:

Lushin A. I. — methodology improvement, critical analysis and scientific editing of the article;

Shcherbina E. Y. — concept development, data collection and literature analysis, writing the draft version of the article.

 

Conflict of interests: the authors declare no conflict of interests.

 

The authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.