Talk:Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

How large?
How many members did the committee have, and is there more information on how they were elected? Googling does not help. --Vuo (talk) 08:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Grishin and Gorbachev?
The article says that in 1985 Gorbachev had a "margin of just one vote" over Grishin in the Central Committee. The Victor Grishin article says that Grishin "did not put himself forward as a candidate" and that "Gorbachev was subsequently unanimously elected as the General Secretary". Was the unanimous vote in a body other than the Central Committee? Molinari (talk) 16:51, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

citation errors
My script shows that several of your citations are not listed in the bibliography, giving the error "Harv error: link to #CITEREFWhite1993 doesn't point to any citation."
 * Bacon & Sandle 2002, p. 10.
 * Bacon & Sandle 2002, p. 12
 * a b Dowlah Elliott, p. 147.
 * Dowlah Elliott, p. 148.
 * White 1993, p. 39
 * White 1993, p. 39–40
 * Also, a couple in the bibliography give the error "Harv error: There is no link pointing to this citation."
 * Dowlah, Alex; Elliott, John (1997). The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780275956295.
 * Sandle, Mark; Bacon, Edwin (2002). Brezhnev Reconsidered. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333794630.


 * These can be fixed by adding the missing ones to the bibliography and removing the two from the bibliography that have no footnote links.

Regards, MathewTownsend (talk) 21:33, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Mitchell's book
The "Andropov–Chernenko interregnum: 1982–1985" section relies heavily on the 1990 book Getting to the Top in the USSR: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership Succession Process by Mitchell. This book might have been good for 1990 but nowadays, more than 20 years later, it doesn't look as an adequate source. Surely there are other, more reliable sources, written with access to some archives and memoirs which appeared later? Mitchell's asssertions, with all dues respect, sounds like the semi-idle guesses of a classical Sovetologist (a profession which no longer exists, and with good reason...).

Can someone suggest a better source? Bazuz (talk) 06:46, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Listings of members under Stalin
Qualifiers - shot, beaten to death, died in gulag, imprisoned during x years - would be useful.Xx234 (talk) 09:33, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * See the respective lists, for instance the 17th Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) . --TIAYN (talk) 09:54, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Exactly, it's the list which needs comments, the year of death helps, but isn't definitive.Xx234 (talk) 10:48, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * As you may know, I'm currently creating the missing CCs of the CPSU, if you want to do it then just check this source; http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/07178.asp (its Russian, but if you can't read Russian like me, Google translate does a good job). --TIAYN (talk) 21:32, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

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Incomplete short citations
who are Smith 2011 and White 1993? Short citations to these were added by you in 2012, I believe, but they both lack corresponding full bibliographical details. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:22, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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