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...members occupy the key executive positions in the Soviet party and state. The hierarchy that enjoys the strongest representation within the Politburo is the Communist Party's vast administrative bureaucracy, which functions, in effect, as a parallel government in the Soviet Union. For each area covered by the ministerial offices???heavy industry, agriculture, propaganda, etc.?the party maintains a counterpart agency and staff. These full-time party professionals, numbering some 200,000, exercise broad supervisory powers over their governmental opposites. The party's chief means of maintaining primacy over the nation's other bureaucracies, including the trade unions...
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