caa a22 4500 386380171 CHVBK 20180307112038.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010994 doi S0008423900010994 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010994 The Circulation of Elites: Soviet Politburo Members, 1919-1987 [Elektronische Daten] The Politburo since its formation in 1919 has been the ruling elite of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. The traditional wisdom is that a blood purge is just around the corner and that a member's tenure is incalculably chaotic. This wisdom of "Evil Empire” is simply mistaken with respect to the Politburo. A statistical review of Politburo membership from 1919 to 1987 shows that the tenure of members is and was virtually the same as that found for elites in many democratic countries and that violence towards members and ex-members is and was rare, except during the Great Purge of 1936-1939. The traditional wisdom was never correct with respect to members' tenures and, with respect to blood purges, it was only correct during the Great Purge. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1989 Ozinga James R. Oakland University Casstevens Thomas W. Oakland University Casstevens Harold T. Miller Lake Research Associates Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 609-617 0008-4239 22:3<609 1989 22 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010994 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010994 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ozinga James R. Oakland University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Casstevens Thomas W. Oakland University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Casstevens Harold T. Miller Lake Research Associates NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 609-617 0008-4239 22:3<609 1989 22 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge