Date

Apr 5, 1956

Description

The importance of the incident at the Heat Engineering Lab is underscored once again by the fact that a resolution was passed by the highest ruling party body, the CC CPSU Presidium, condemning the "outbursts" and ordering the expulsion of Orlov, Avalov, Nesterov and Schedrin from the Party and from the lab. The resolution approved the draft and measures to disband and re-subordinate the primary Party cell to root out the emerging dissent. The resolution actually reaffirms the correctness of the general Party line and the impermissibility of deviations from it, which shows the limits of Khrushchev's destalinization.

Source

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI), Fond 3, opis 14, delo 13

Document published in following posting(s):

In Memoriam: Yuri Fedorovich Orlov, 1924-2020

Sep 28, 2020

Resolution of the Presidium of the CC CPSU "About Hostile Outbursts at the Meeting of the Party Organization of the Heat Engineering Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the Results of the XX Congress of the CPSU," 5 April 1956. Strictly Secret.