Problems of Restructuring the Work Style and Strengthening Discipline of the Party-Administrative Elite of the Altai Territory in the Early 1960s

Abstract

The presented publication is aimed at researching within the elite processes taking place within the framework of the socio-professional group of the party-administrative administrative apparatus of the Altai Territory in the beginning of the 1960s. Archival sources are analyzed. First of all, the documentation stored in the State Archive of the Altai Territory. In particular, the protocols and transcripts of regional party conferences. The study is based on the methodology of the “new social history”, since it is precisely such tools that allow us to consider the party and administrative elite of the Altai Territory as a special social group.
 The authors note that the 1960s became the time to search for ways to transform the professional activities of the state-economic apparatus of power, both at the level of the highest Soviet administrative elite, and in its regional variations.
 It has been established that the main vector of transformations in the professional activities of the party-administrative elite of the Altai Territory in the 1960s the fight against violations of party-state discipline. Such problems as excessive bureaucracy, isolation and abstraction from the real state of affairs, irresponsibility and negligence of the regional administrative apparatus were highlighted.