ABSTRACT
The organisational characteristics of political parties tend to be determined by the surrounding political environment. In a society where the route to governmental power is through the ballot box, parties are organised in such a way as to maximise the chances of their winning elections. Party organisations must pay closer attention to publicising examples of good work, and the collective contract system must be extended, but not too hastily, as that would be counter-productive. The goal was an across-the-board increase in productivity of one percent, and a half percent reduction in costs. The relationship between party and economy at the local level is determined by the nature of the salient characteristics of the Soviet political system. These include such features as democratic centralism, the leading role of the party, the nomenklatura system, and the division of the process of government into discrete elements with the party monopolising the rukovodstvo role.
