| Department
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Responsible for
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Sections
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| Administrative Organs
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| Agriculture
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- Land cultivation
- Mechanisation
- Procurements
- Reclamations and water economy
- Forestry
- (Agricultural) science
- Special sections for certain territories, for instance, their existed a Northern Caucasus section.
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| Chemical Industry
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| Construction
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- Industrial and transportation construction
- Urban economy
- Timber and woodworking industry
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| Culture
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- Cinematography
- Literature
- Musical arts
- Theater
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| Defence Industry
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| Foreign Cadres
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| General
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- Responsible for handling intra-Secretariat and intra-Central Committee housekeeping, the handling of incoming communications, and security for classified documents
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| Heavy Industry
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| Information
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| International
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- Responsible for maintaining ties with communist parties in non-socialist states.
- Probably supervised the ministries the Foreign Cadres Department was responsible for.
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- Africa
- Central Europe
- Great Britain and the Commonwealth
- Latin America
- Near East
- Southeast Asia
- Scandinavia and Iceland
- United States
- International Social Organizations
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| Light- and Food Industry
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- Fisheries
- Food Industry
- Meat and Dairy Industry
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| Machinery Industry
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| Organisational-party Work
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- Individual party card
- Leading personnel registration
- Party information
- Komsomol and trade union organs
- Ukrainian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Estonian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Belarusian SSR, Soviet Central Asia (Kazakh SSR, Turkmen SSR, Kyrgyz SSR and Uzbek SSR), Transcaucasia and several important sections for Russian SFSR territories, such as the Far East Oblast for instance.
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| Planning and Financial Organs
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| Political Administration of the Ministry of Defence
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- Political organs in the armed forces, and through them, the Ministry of Defence, however, the Administrative Organs Department was also responsible for the defence ministry.
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| Propaganda
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- Cultural-enlightenment work
- Economic education
- Mass-political work
- Newspapers
- Party education
- Printing industry and press distribution
- Sports and physical culture
- Television and Radio
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| Science and Education
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- Responsible for diplomatic ties with ruling communist parties
- May have supervised the ministries of the Foreign Cadres Department, at least when it came to relations with ruling-communist parties.
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- Economic sciences
- Higher educational institutions
- Philosophy and scientific communism
- Public health and social security
- Schools
- Specialised secondary- and vocational-technical education.
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| Trade and Consumers' Services
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- Ministry of Trade (U–R)
- Consumers' Coops
- Republican ministries responsible for utilities and consumers's services.
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| Transportation-Communications
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| Women
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| Sources: How the Soviet Union is Governed (1979) pp. 412–417 and pp. 420–421
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