Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2019. № 4 (32). P. 112—122
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 94(470.5)“1928/1929”
Vorobyev Sergey Viktorovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences
Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
I. D. KABAKOV AGAINST N. M. SHVERNIK: STRUGGLE OF TWO “VARANGIANS”. THE CONFLICT IN THE URAL REGION IN 1928—1929
Abstract
The article analyses the conflict of 1928 — early 1929 in the Ural region between the Secretary of Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) N. M. Shvernik and the recently appointed Chairman of Ural Regional Executive Committee I. D. Kabakov. The article reveals the circumstances of the conflict, opinions of the participants and claims of the opponents against the regional party committee secretary. The opposition to Shvernik was made up of part of the regional party leadership, the heads of the regional executive committee and leading district committees of the Communist Party, as well as the heads of large industrial enterprises. The peculiarity of the conflict was that it arose not between the Moscow-appointed head of the region and the local party and Soviet elite, which was quite typical of the Soviet political system of that period, but between the two “Varangians”. In this confrontation in regional authorities, the central party leadership did not support N. M. Shvernik, which ultimately predetermined his defeat in the nomenclature struggle. I. D. Kabakov was appointed head of Ural Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b). It is concluded that the outcome of the intra-nomenclature conflict in the regional largely depended on the Center and its assessment of the power balance of conflicting parties.
Key words
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Ural Regional Committee, regional executive committee, conflict, party nomenclature, authorities, N. M. Shvernik, I. D. Kabakov.
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Vorobyev S. V. I. D. Kabakov against N. M. Shvernik: struggle of two “Varangians”. The conflict in the Ural region in 1928—1929. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2019, no. 4 (32), pp. 112—122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2019.32.8.