Partmaximum (Партмаксимум) was a limit on the salary of a member of the Communist PartyThis article deals only with the Leninist version of a Communist party. In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. However, the Leninist concept of a communist party includes ...Communist Party in the Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, SSSR), also called the Soviet UnionUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics. Britannica (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з; tr.: Sovetskiy Soyuz), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. It was often incorrectly, and sometimes intentionally, ...Soviet Union. Partmaximum was introduced in 1920Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar.1920 by a decree of the All-Russian Central Executive CommitteeThe Supreme Soviet of the USSR (, Verkhovny Sovet SSSR) was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments. It elected the Presidium, formed the Soviet government, the Supreme Court, and appointed the Procurator General of the USSR. Its official name before the approval of the 1936 Soviet Constitution was All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный ...Central Executive Committee (ВЦИК) for all communists that held executive positions in Party, industry, government and Soviet trade unionsTrade unions in the Soviet Union trace their history back to Russian Revolution of 1905. Many trade unions were shut down or restricted on the eve of World War I and during the War, but they revived after the February Revolution and their leaders were democratically elected during 1917. Some Bolshevik trade unionists ...Soviet trade unions. Their salary was not supposed to exceed that of a highly qualified industrial worker. If a communist had other incomes, e.g., honorariums or royalties, he had to transfer a specified percentage from the amount above the partmaximum into the Party funds.

Partmaximum was cancelled by a secret resolution of PolitburoPolitburo is short for Political Bureau. The term originates from the Russian Politicheskoye Buro, which contracts to Politburo. A Politburo is the executive organization for a number of political parties, most notably for Communist Parties.Politburo of February 8No quick definition available. February 8, 1932Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.1932, however it was de facto ignored earlier. This cancellation is thought to mark the onset of the formation of the privileged nomenklaturaThe nomenklatura were a small, élite subset of the general population in the Soviet Union who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of the Soviet Union: in government, industry, agriculture, education, etc. Without exception, they were members of the Communist Party. Nomenklatura had more authority and claimed higher ...nomenklatura class of Soviet apparatchiksApparatchik (Russian: аппара́тчик, IPA: plural apparatchiki) is a Russian colloquial term for a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party or government; i.e., an agent of the governmental or party "apparat" (apparatus) that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management. Members of the "apparat" were frequently transferred between different areas of responsibility, usually with little or no actual training for their new ...apparatchiks, whose well-being no longer depended on the well-being of subordinated workers.