Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: The Stalin Years 1929-1953 (Heritage) by Robert H. McNeal

Author:Robert H. McNeal [McNeal, Robert H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Published: 1974-12-15T08:00:00+00:00

II ORGANIZATIONAL MEASURES IN SOVIET CONSTRUCTION

On Liquidating Functionalism and Ensuring Concrete Guidance

8 The functional system of structuring the soviet-economic apparatus is to be liquidated and this apparatus restructured along territorial-production lines, from the lowest production links up to the people’s commissariats.

The principal organs of the people’s commissariats are to be the main production or territorial-production administrations which will be responsible for the given sector of work as a whole and will be endowed with rights and obligations with respect to all aspects, without exception, of the guidance of their subordinate organizations; the rights of the remaining functional sectors are to be limited, and they are forbidden to give guidance to lower-level links through the chiefs of the main administrations.

9 The leaders of soviet-economic organs are obliged to provide genuinely concrete guidance of each separate lower-level organ or enterprise, correcting their short-comings by means of operative measures during the course of work; they must cut down on the network of intermediate links (associations, trusts, etc.) and broaden the direct connection between the people’s commissariats and the largest enterprises.

10 There is to be a more precise and strict delimitation of obligations between the central and local organs of the people’s commissariats; the role and obligations of the local, oblast, krai, and republican organs of power are to be increased, in particular as regards the development of local industry and agriculture, the guidance of only the enterprises of genuinely all-union significance being concentrated in the main administrations of the people’s commissariats.

In place of the plenipotentiaries of the people’s commissariats, oblast and krai administrations of heavy, light, and other branches of industry are to be set up in the oblasts and krais; they are to have responsibility for the administration of all local industry and at the same time for executing the assignments of the corresponding people’s commissariat.

The Central Committee is instructed to give a concrete formulation to the question of organizing the administration of local industry and of the local representation of the all-union industrial people’s commissariats.

11 In 1934 the staffs of all soviet budgetary and economic-accounting organs are to be reduced by at least 10–15 Per cent below their 1933 levels; there is also to be a sharp reduction in existing forms of registering and reporting from top to bottom.

On the personal responsibility of leaders, verification of execution, and transfer of cadres into production

12 In order to strengthen the personal responsibility of economic and soviet leaders, the collegial form of leadership is to be liquidated in all areas of soviet-economic activity except in elected soviet organs.

In the people’s commissariats the collegial form of leadership is to be liquidated; the people’s commissar is to remain at the head with not more than two deputies. Councils are to be set up in the people’s commissariats, meeting once every two months and consisting of from forty to seventy members, of whom not less than half must be the representatives of local organizations and enterprises.

The chairmen of oblast or krai executive committees, of the republic councils of people’s commissars, and of city soviets must have not more than two deputies.

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