Open AccessMark Sandle, Igor Cașu, Leonid Brezhnev in Moldavia, 1950-52: the making of a GenSek?
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
plural : history. culture. society = istorie. cultură. societate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2345-184X
pISSN - 2345-1262
DOI - 10.37710/plural.v4i2_6
Subject(s) - period (music) , consolidation (business) , political science , communism , politics , history , law , aesthetics , art , accounting , business
This is the first article dealing specifically with Brezhnev in Soviet Moldavia. The article draws mainly on recently disclosed files from the Archive of the Social-Political Organizations of the Republic of Moldova, the former archive of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Moldavia. The authors are trying to understand the importance of the period when Brezhnev served as First Secretary of Central Committee of Moldavia from 1950 to 1952 for his subsequent career. In order to understand better the results of Brezhnev’s rule in Moldavian SSR and the impact on his leadership style, the authors discuss the previous career of Brezhnev as well as the activity of the previous First Secretaries in Soviet Moldavia. One of the main results of Brezhnev period in Moldavia was the consolidation of kolkhozes. In a broader sense, since this period at least, Brezhnev favoured quantity over quality.