The Main Trends in the Development of the System of Local Government Bodies of the BSSR (1953–1964)

Abstract

The article discusses the main directions in reorganizing the structure of the executive committees of the Soviets of Workers' Deputies – local government bodies of the BSSR, expansion of their material and financial base, new trends in personnel nomenclature practice in 1953–1964. It is noted that the party-state policy regarding the role of local government bodies in 1953–1964 was generally updated. The line initiated by the supreme Union leadership to reduce the administrative and administrative apparatus and its maintenance costs, which is implemented through both the consolidation of administrative-territorial units and structural divisions of executive committees, becomes decisive. The central Union bodies also took the initiative to expand the rights of local Soviets and their executive committees to form the material and financial base of their activities. In nomenclature personnel work, the spheres of nomenclature responsibility are redistributed from top to bottom. Higher education becomes a necessary attribute of holding senior positions at the district and regional levels. The degree of mobility of the executive staff of the executive committees of the Soviets is significantly increasing.