How a Graduate of the Central Komsomol School Maria Komissarova Broke the Script of Yu. V. Andropov

• Published in: Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie
• Main Author: Васильев, Юрий Альбертович
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Московский гуманитарный университет 2021
• Subjects: late Stalinism; “Leningrad case”; Karelian-Finnish SSR; Yu. V. Andropov; M. V. Komissarova; S. P. Tataurshchikov; Central Komsomol School; plenum; Komsomol; поздний сталинизм; «Ленинградское дело»; Карело-Финская ССР; Ю. В. Андропов; М. В. Комиссарова; С. П. Татаурщиков; Центральная комсомольская школа; пленум; комсомол; karelian
• Online Access: https://journals.mosgu.ru/zpu/article/view/1423; https://doi.org/10.17805/zpu.2021.3.14

The materials of the Russian Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI), which constitute the documentary basis of the publication, indicate that the mechanism of the functioning of the party system in the USSR under the conditions of late Stalinism operated according to a single model in all regions of the country. The publication highlights an unknown page of the “Leningrad case” associated with the holding of the fifth plenum of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Karelian–Finnish SSR on February 27–28, 1950, in the organization of which Yu. V. Andropov, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the republic, was directly involved. At the plenum, criticism was voiced of «major shortcomings and mistakes» in the work of the bureau and secretaries of the republic's Komsomol Central Committee. The personal assignment that Andropov received from Moscow was impeded by the fact that now his pupils were in the leadership of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the republic, which he headed in 1940–1944. The accusations against each of them could indirectly affect Andropov as well.Among the nominees, participants in the fifth plenum, were second secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of KFSSR S. P. Tataurschikov and secretary of the Central Committee for personnel M. V. Komissarova, for whom their mentor Yu. V. Andropov was a fateful personality, whose support and participation largely determined the fate of everyone. The publication tested a way of understanding history based on its human dimension. Plots related to the fate of the graduates of the first two sets of the Central Komsomol School Maria Komissarova and Sergei Tataurshchikov, their relationship with Andropov are covered. Материалы Российского архива социально-политической истории (РГАСПИ), составляющие документальную основу публикации, свидетельствуют о том, что механизм функционирования партийной системы в СССР в условиях позднего сталинизма действовал по единой модели во всех регионах страны. В ...