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from 1953, the power of the party bureaucracy was strengthened as power that had previously been concentrated by Stalin into the hands of the Politburo was restored to the Central Committee. According to American Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, following Leonid Brezhnev's accession to power in 1964, the appointment authority of the CPSU underwent a substantial expansion. However, in the late 1980s, under Mikhail Gorbachev,

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