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REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN POLITICAL RECRUITMENT IN THE SOVIET REPUBLICS *
Author(s) -
DELLENBRANT JAN ÅKE
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1978.tb00556.x
Subject(s) - politics , communism , situated , period (music) , political science , field (mathematics) , political economy , development economics , sociology , economics , law , physics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , acoustics , pure mathematics
ABSTRACT The article presents an overview of differences between the fifteen Soviet republics in the field of political recruitment. The indicators of recruitment chosen are membership of the Communist Party and the Komsomol. The study covers the period 1956–73. The existence of significant differences is established. These differences tend also to remain over time. In the field of political recruitment, the western republics situated in the European part of the USSR behave differently from those of Central Asia. Finally, a connection between the differences in political recruitment and the differences in socio‐economic development is suggested. The political organizations tend, on the average, to have more members in the economically advanced areas and vice versa.