Political Elites in Eastern Europe, 1971 (ICPSR 5807)

Principal Investigator(s): Beck, Carl

Summary: This study contains biographical data on political elites who were members of either the Central Committee or Council of Ministers in 1971 in five Eastern European nations: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Demographic variables provide information on sex, date of birth, ethnicity, nationality, education, family background, and date of death. Additional variables describe career events or particular experiences of the elites such as dates of military service, party membersh... (more info)

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Beck, Carl. Political Elites in Eastern Europe, 1971. ICPSR05807-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05807.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05807.v1

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Summary:   This study contains biographical data on political elites who were members of either the Central Committee or Council of Ministers in 1971 in five Eastern European nations: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Demographic variables provide information on sex, date of birth, ethnicity, nationality, education, family background, and date of death. Additional variables describe career events or particular experiences of the elites such as dates of military service, party membership, government service, or dates of entry into and exit from the Central Committee and other political institutions.

Subject Terms:   biographical data, Communist Party, leadership, national elites, political elites, social status

Geographic Coverage:   Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Global, Hungary, Poland, Romania

Time Period:  

• 1971

Data Types:   aggregate data

Sample:   Political elites who were members of either the Central Committee or Council of Ministers in 1971 in five Eastern European nations: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-05-03

Version History:

• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 11 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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