Communist Parties Revisited : : Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 /

Communist Parties Revisited : : Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / / ed. by Jens Gieseke, Rüdiger Bergien.

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The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly differen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bahr, Andrea,
Behrends, Jan C.,
Bergien, Rüdiger,
Boyer, Christoph,
Christian, Michel,
Cohn, Edward,
Dąbek, Krzysztof,
Gieseke, Jens,
Kenney, Padraic,
Kramer, Mark,
Pannen, Sabine,
Rowell, Jay,
Sabrow, Martin,
Titov, Alexander,
Zalewski, Frédéric,
HerausgeberIn:
Bergien, Rüdiger,
Gieseke, Jens,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (383 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956–1991
  • 1 THE PARADOX OF PARTY DISCIPLINE IN THE KHRUSHCHEV-ERA COMMUNIST PARTY
  • 2 “IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO ALLOW PAST MISTAKES TO COME AGAIN” Recruitment Policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980s
  • 3 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS The Erosion of SED Party Life in the 1980s
  • 4 THE SUCCESSIVE DISSOLUTION OF THE “UNCIVIL SOCIETY” Tracking SED Members in Opinion Polls and Secret Police Reports, 1969–1989
  • 5 ON THE WAY TO PARTY PLURALISM? The PZPR and the Reform of the Socialist Party System in 1988–1989
  • 6 COMMUNIST PARTY APPARATUSES AS STEERING ORGANIZATIONS Paths of Development in East Central Europe
  • 7 THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE DEPARTMENT OF PARTY ORGANS UNDER KHRUSHCHEV
  • 8 TRUE BELIEVERS BECOMING FUNDED EXPERTS? Personnel Profile and Political Power in the SED Central Commitee’s Sectoral Apparatus, 1946–89
  • 9 PATERNALISM IN LOCAL PRACTICE The Logic of Repression, Ideological Hegemony, and the Everyday Management of Society in an SED Local Secretariat
  • 10 THE SED BEZIRK SECRETARIES AS BROKERS OF TERRITORIAL INTERESTS IN THE GDR
  • 11 THE IDEA OF SOCIAL UNITY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MECHANISMS OF A TOTALITARIAN REGIME IN THE YEARS 1956–1980
  • 12 FOREIGN POLICYMAKING AND PARTY-STATE RELATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION DURING THE BREZHNEV ERA
  • 13 ERICH HONECKER— THE “LEADING REPRESENTATIVE” A Generational Perspective
  • 14 INSIDE THE SYSTEM The CPSU Central Committ ee, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Komanda, and the End of Communist Rule in Russia
  • 15 THE IRONIES OF MEMBERSHIP The Ruling Communist Party in Comparative Perspective
  • Index

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