Soviet elites in the post-Stalin period, 1966

The data were collected to facilitate the exploration of relationships between the demographic and career pattern attributes of the Soviet leadership and attitudinal variance within the leadership. Two types of data were included in the study: attitudinal and demographic/career pattern data. The attitudinal data were generated by a content analysis of a sample of articles in "representative" Soviet periodicals for the year 1965. Demographic and career pattern data were collected to supplement the information on the Soviet officials in the attitudinal sample.