Funding Loyalty: The Economics of the Communist Party

by Eugenia Belova

Overview

The flow of money to national, regional, and local Soviet communist party organizations, the manner in which money was collected, and how their financial discipline was enforced all yield deep insights into the party’s role in the Soviet institutional design. Funding Loyalty examines the Soviet communist party's financial operations and its budget from the 1930s through 1960s, providing a fresh look at the evolution of the party and its role in the Soviet economy and society as a whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300165906
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	01/08/2013
Series:	The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Eugenia Belova is Senior Content Developer, Economics, Cengage Learning. Valery Lazarev is Senior Research Scientist, Empirical Education.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1 The Budget of the Soviet Communist Party 23

2 Trends in Party Finance, 1939-1965 36

3 The Special Budget of 1948 45

4 "Impossible Structures": Resource Allocation and Party Donors 56

5 Funding Loyalty with Promises 74

6 The Party and Its Overseers 95

7 Selective Justice: Party Control under Stalin 110

8 How Much? The Cost of Party and the Determinants of Party Expenditures 130

Conclusions 141

Appendix of Figures and Tables 155

Notes 185

Index 203