Abstract
The January 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee posed the question of improving the formation of elective party organs and emphasized that the democratization of this process is an important Condition to increasing the life activity of the Party, to the influx offresh blood, to the active work ofparty organizations, and is a guarantee that past errors will not be repeated. It proposed, in particular, that secretaries-including first secretaries-of district, area, city, regional, and territorial party committees, and of central committees of Communist Parties of unionrepublics be elected by secret ballot at plenums of the respective committees, and it also proposed giving party committee members the right to nominate any number of candidates. A recent plenum of the Sovetskii District Party Committee of the Khanty- Mansi Autonomous Area in Tiumen' Region elected the first secretary of the district party committee by secret ballot. fiere were two nominees for the position. What was the nature of the elections? What did they reveal ?
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