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The Stalinist system had emerged between 1928 and 1932 through the implementation of the First Five Year Plan and collectivisation. This was demonstrated in the domination of Sovnarkom by major commissariats concerned with these processes. It was followed by a period of consolidation between 1932 and 1935, reflected in changes in Sovnarkom’s structure with the development of new economic commissariats. During both these periods Stalin’s dictatorship was limited by a clique of his major supporters who exercised their influence over policy-making through the Politburo and Central Committee and over the execution of policy through the control of powerful economic fiefs in Sovnarkom.
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5 The Institutional Development of Sovnarkom 1935–1941
Knight, A., Be ria: Stalin’s First Lieutenant, Princeton: Princeton U. P., 1993, p. 102. The outbreak of war delayed the implementation of the change to 1943. See VVS, no. 7 (122), 12 February 1941, no. 33 (148), 26 July 1991.
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Watson, D. (1996). The Institutional Development of Sovnarkom 1935–41. In: Molotov and Soviet Government. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24848-3_6
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