Format:
xii, 371 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
1785337769
,
9781785337765
Content:
"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 different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national and transnational contexts, the contributions assembled here reconstruct the rituals of party meetings, functionaries' informal practices, intra-party power struggles, and the social production of ideology to give a detailed account of state socialist policymaking on a micro-historical scale"--
Content:
Inhaltsverzeichnis: Communist parties revisited: cultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke -- The paradox of party discipline in the Khrushchev-era Communist Party / Edward Cohn -- "It Is not possible to allow past mistakes to come again": recruitment policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980s / Michel Christian -- Behind closed doors: the erosion of SED party life in the 1980s / Sabine Pannen -- The successive dissolution of the "uncivil society": tracking SED party members in opinion polls and secret police reports, 1969-1989 / Jens Gieseke -- On the way to party pluralism?: the PZPR and the reform of the socialist party system in 1988-1989 / Frédéric Zalewski -- Communist Party apparatuses as steering organizations: paths of development in East Central Europe / Christoph Boyer -- The Central Committee Department of Party Organs under Khrushchev / Alexander Titov -- True believers becoming funded experts?: personnel profile and political power in the SED Central Committee's Sectoral Apparatus, 1946-89 / Rüdiger Bergien -- Paternalism in local practice: the logic of repression, ideological hegemony and the everyday management of society in an SED local secretariat / Andrea Bahr -- The SED Bezirk secretaries as brokers of territorial interests in the GDR / Jay Rowell -- The idea of social unity and its influence on the mechanisms of a totalitarian regime in the years 1956-1980 / Krzysztof Dąbek -- Foreign policymaking and party-state relations in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev era / Mark Kramer -- Erich Honecker, the "leading representative": a generational perspective / Martin Sabrow -- Inside the system: the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev's Komanda, and the end of Communist rule in Russia / Jan C. Behrends -- The ironies of membership: the ruling Communist Party in comparative perspective / Padraic Kenney.
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785337772
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Communist parties revisited New York, NY : Berghahn, 2018 ISBN 9781785337772
Language:
English
Keywords:
Ostmitteleuropa
;
Sowjetunion
;
Deutschland
;
Kommunistische Partei
;
Geschichte 1956-1991
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BergienCommunist
Author information:
Gieseke, Jens 1964-
Author information:
Bergien, Rüdiger 1977-
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