Format:
XIV, 470 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781805390480
Uniform Title:
Im "Generalstab der Partei"
Content:
Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the “party line” in all areas of society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a long period of the GDR’s history, from 1946 through 1989, Rüdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the complexities of the central party’s communist apparatus. He focuses on their role as ideological watchdogs, as they fostered an underbelly and “inner life” for their employees to integrate the party’s pillars throughout East German society. Inside Party Headquarters reviews not only the party’s modes power and state interaction, but also the processes of negotiation and disputation preceding formal Politburo decisions, advancing the available detail and discourse surrounding this formative and volatile stretch of German history.
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Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 429-463
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Enthält ein Personenregister
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Introduction -- Between the KPD and the CPSU (1945-49) -- The arduous road to power : the Central Committee apparatus in the decade of building socialism (1950-59) -- The apparatus as a communication space -- A brake on reforms? : the apparatus in the late Ulbricht era (1960-70) -- "The MfS only comes up to our chest"? : the Central Committee apparatus and state security - "In the general staff of the party" : the Honecker apparatus (1971-85) -- "Funding loyalty?" -- Decaying authority and self-dissolution : the apparatus in the "final crisis" -- Conclusion : the assimilated "superstate".
Additional Edition:
Übersetzung von Bergien, Rüdiger, 1977 - Im "Generalstab der Partei"
Additional Edition:
10.3167/9781805390480
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781805390497
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bergien, Rüdiger, 1977 - Inside party headquarters New York : Berghahn Books, 2023 ISBN 9781805390497
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Zentralkomitee
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Geschichte
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Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands Zentralkomitee
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Geschichte
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Hochschulschrift
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Quelle
Author information:
Bergien, Rüdiger 1977-
Author information:
Burnett, David L. 1973-
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