TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bahr,Andrea
AU  - Behrends,Jan C.
AU  - Bergien,Rüdiger
AU  - Boyer,Christoph
AU  - Christian,Michel
AU  - Cohn,Edward
AU  - Dąbek,Krzysztof
AU  - Gieseke,Jens
AU  - Kenney,Padraic
AU  - Kramer,Mark
AU  - Pannen,Sabine
AU  - Rowell,Jay
AU  - Sabrow,Martin
AU  - Titov,Alexander
AU  - Zalewski,Frédéric
TI  - Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 
SN  - 9781785337765
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Communism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Communist parties
KW  - Communist countries
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - civic
KW  - communist parties
KW  - eastern bloc countries
KW  - engaging
KW  - european history
KW  - everyday life
KW  - history
KW  - ideology
KW  - inner workings
KW  - marx
KW  - monolithic government
KW  - opaque institutions
KW  - political parties
KW  - political process
KW  - political science
KW  - political
KW  - politics
KW  - postwar europe
KW  - revolutionaries
KW  - russia
KW  - russian history
KW  - social issues
KW  - social problems
KW  - socialism communism
KW  - socialism
KW  - society
KW  - sociocultural approach
KW  - soviet bloc
KW  - transnational contexts
KW  - unprecedented power
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785337772?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -