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Moscow and the Non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union

This book examines what came to determine the local power and character of the Communist party-state at the level of the national non-Russian republics. It discusses how, although the Soviet Union looked centralized and monolithic to outsiders, local party-states formed their own fiefdoms and had very considerable influence over many policies areas within their republics. It argues that local party-states were shaped by two decisive relationships to the central Communist party in Moscow and to local constituencies, especially to the local intelligentsia and the creative professions who constituted the local party-states biggest potential adversaries. It shows how local party-states negotiated stability and their own survival, and contends that the effects of Sovietization continue to be felt in the independent states which succeeded the republics, particularly in the field of the relationship with Moscow, which remains of immense importance to these countries.

Li Bennich-Bjrkman is Johan Skytte Professor in Eloquence and Political Science at the University of Uppsala, Sweden

Saulius Grybkauskas is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs at the Lithuanian Institute of History

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ISBN: 978-1-032-15540-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-032-15547-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-24460-8 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003244608

We want to thank the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES) at Uppsala University, The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Uppsala, Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius, and the Research Council of Lithuania for generous support in making it possible for this volume to see the light of day. The National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Ukraine, and particularly Vasyl Kremen and Sergiy Kurbatov, deserve an equal recognition for hosting our mid-way workshop with the authors and the editors in April 2019 in Kyiv.

We are both part of vibrant intellectual environments, at Uppsala University and its IRES and Department of Government, and Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. The open-mindedness and curiosity that thereby surround us, is worth cherishing, since it contribute to a creative climate which inspire and help to formulate new insights.

Li Bennich-Bjrkman and Saulius Grybkauskas

DOI: 10.4324/9781003244608-1

The once commonly held view in the West of the Soviet Union as virtually monolithic and streamlined into grey uniformity in contrast to the technicoloured world of the West has been successfully challenged by a scholarly understanding that allows for more complexity and nuance. Everyday life continued for decades in the Soviet Union, generations grew up and grew old, patterns of economic and social relations crystallized into established practice as lifes joy and despair continued to leave their marks ().

Even if developments after 1991 in what became fifteen independent states were not to foreseeable, how the Soviet era played out on the republican level, and particularly in the post-Stalin decades that offered greater opportunities for individual initiative and strategic decision-making, has continued to shape national paths.

The Soviet centre and periphery

Patterns of governance, framed by the triangular relationship between the Centre in Moscow, the local Party-states in the republics, and their national intelligentsias, created what we claim to be multiple Soviet models with legacies that varied once independence was established. How these governance patterns formed and developed after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 is the focus of this book.

Moscow, and by extension the Kremlin, or Staraya Ploschad (Old Square, the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party [CC CPSU]), is a prevailing geographical place in the political history of USSR. This book is about the Soviet republics and that means Moscow was the main variable in the above-mentioned triangle. The Moscow factor played an even greater role within its own, that is Soviet, republics than in other Communist countries. If, in the case of the satellite states, their ruling parties had more latitude to deal with society and Moscows intervention was rare, in the Soviet republics the leaderships were always under Moscows permanent supervision. Moscows interventions, the ongoing control, changed the relationship with the Soviet republics dramatically compared to the Eastern European Communist countries. The aim of the local

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