EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL IN A LOCAL SOVIET AUTHORITY SYSTEM IN SEVASTOPOL IN 1921-1925
Journal: Historical and social-educational ideas
Year: 2017

During the first half of 1920s politics of promotion of workers and peasants to managing roles in Soviet state apparatus took place in a whole country. The aim of this politics was to promote persons who were loyal to new Soviet authority and new ideas. This article on the example of Sevastopol reveals that this approach leaded to dramatic increase of uneducated deputies in the city Council. In Sevastopol Council there were approximately 60% of deputies who had only elementary education. It had