Some of the new people who came into the Soviet hierarchy, like Mikhail Gorbachev were younger, better educated and more independent thinkers.

With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy.

She was the first woman to rise so high in the Soviet hierarchy.

Maluta's own rise within the Soviet hierarchy had been swift and unerring.

The antireligious propaganda rarely showed differentiation in methodology despite the debate that went on between different members of the Soviet hierarchy.

We don't know who is doing what to whom in the Soviet hierarchy, and have to make inferences.

Even in the Soviet military hierarchy those with the guts to stand for what they believed in could have some success.

It is bound to stir debate at the technical level of the Soviet military and political hierarchy.

Kosygin returned to Leningrad in the early 1930s and worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy.

The worst aspects of co-ordination, however, were central-local relations within the Soviet hierarchy.