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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bergien, Rüdiger (Editor), Gieseke, Jens (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785337772
1785337777