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Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet bloc, 1956-1991 /

"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 di...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bergien, Rüdiger (Editor ), Gieseke, Jens (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
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  • 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.