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The unification of TsKK and NKRKI in 1923 established a powerful unified agency of party and state control. The despised and ineffective NKRKI was transformed into one of the central links in the party-state apparatus. By 1929–30 TsKK-NKRKI had become one of the most powerful institutions in the USSR, wielding enormous influence on policy-making. This was achieved through a long and complex process of adjustment, through which NKRKI developed its organization and function, and studiously cultivated its links with the Politburo and Sovnarkom. TsKK-NKRKI’s rise to prominence was also shaped by the intense factional and policy disputes of the 1920s, in which it played a crucial part.
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S.N. Ikonnikov, Sozdanie i deyatel’nost’ ob”edinennykh organov TsKK-RKI v 1923–1934 gg (M., 1971) pp. 66–144; P, 27 May 1923; 22, 26 June 1923.
T. Dzhaembaev, Vozniknovenie i razvitie vnutrivedomstvennogo kontrolya (Alma Ata, 1957) pp. 57–61. See also SU, 1923, art. 983.
For a full list of TsKK plenums see I.M. Moskalenko, Organy partiinogo kontrolya v period stroitel’stva sotsializma (M., 1981) pp. 160–8.
Ikonnikov, Sozdanie i deyatel’nost’, pp. 70–1 cites ‘Spravochnik dlya kontrol’nykh komissii RKP(b)” (Moscow, 1923) p. 37. By 1924 Kuibyshev was considering the possibility that all TsKK members should be employed in NKRKI; see V.V. Kuibyshev, Zadachi TsKK i RKI (M. 1925 pp. 24–5.
Ikonnikov, Sozdanie i deyatel’nost’, p. 75 cites ‘Otchet TsKK RKP(b) XIII s”ezdu partii’ (M., 1924) p. 38. See also the comments by S.I. Komissarov in F.I. Potashev, Reorganizatsiya Rabkrina i TsKK (Rostov, 1974) p. 96.
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Cocks, Politics of Party Control, p. 130 cites a thesis by R.V. Gataullin, ‘Voploshchenie Leninskikh printsipov kontrolya i deyatel’nosti organov OKK-RKI Tatarii v vosstanovitel’nyi period’ (1921–1926 gg), p. 74n.
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J.R. Westgarth, Russian Engineer (London, 1934). The author comments on relations between TsKK-NKRKI and OGPU: ‘Members of the dreaded ‘Cheka’ spy on the spies, watch one another and unknowingly are watched themselves’.
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Rees, E.A. (1987). Rabkrin and the Organization of State Control (1923–30). In: State Control in Soviet Russia. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09299-4_4
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