Cleanings of state institutions in 1929-1932 as the Soviet method of struggle against bureaucratism

The article is about consecutive cleanings of the state institutions, known as «general cleaning». General cleanings were campaigns always organised «from above». Cleanings were not the casual phenomenon but were a logic consequence of a current political and social situation in the country.
The author focuses attention to the decision of following questions: what was the reason of campaign expansions, what methods used at general cleanings, what yielded results and how much was its significance for Soviest history.

cleaning, bureaucratism, a category, promoted worker, state machinery clarification