Maxim Anatolievich Simonov,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russia Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia, e‑mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
At the Beginning of a Long Epoch
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-6-19
The article is a review of two documentary publications (Tomilina, N.G., Prozumenshchikov, M.Y., Jalilov, T.A., Pivovarov, N.Y. (Comp.). (2020). Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Recordings and Transcripts of Meetings of 1965–1967. Moscow, IstLit, 2020. 944 p.; Prozumenshchikov, M.Yu., Jalilov, T.A., Pivovarov, N.Yu. (Comp.). (2020). Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Working Notes and Minutes of Meetings. 1968. Moscow, IstLit. 968 p.). The corpuses of records and working materials of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU for 1966–1968 are a full-stock edition of the documents of one of the two highest leadership bodies of the Communist Party, along with the Politburo. The review reveals the informational potential of the publications. First of all, they reflect the formal organization of the supreme party power at the beginning of the Brezhnev leadership of the USSR, and also show the decision-making process of its members. In addition, the collections under consideration contain material about almost all areas of the country’s life. The review pays special attention to the reflection of the Soviet-Chinese contradictions in the documents.
Publishing: 28/12/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 10/11/2022
How to cite: Simonov M.A. At the Beginning of a Long Epoch // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 6 (26), pp. 277–285. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-6-19.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2022
Keywords: USSR; CPSU; Secretariat; L.I. Brezhnev; corpus of documents