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Perestroika and the Party : National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform / ed. by Francesco Di Palma.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789200201
  • 9781789200218
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.2/17509409048 23
LOC classification:
  • HX238.5 .P467 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Perestroika: The Demise of the Communist World? -- Part I Eastern Europe -- Chapter 1 The Impact of Perestroika and Glasnost on the CPSU’s Stance toward the “Fraternal Parties” in the Eastern Bloc -- Chapter 2 Soviet Society, Perestroika, and the End of the USSR -- Chapter 3 Perestroika Made in Hungary? The HSWP’s Approach to the Soviet Reform of the Late 1980s -- Chapter 4 Yugoslavia and Perestroika, 1985–1991 Between Hope and Disappointment -- Chapter 5 The Polish United Workers’ Party and Perestroika -- Chapter 6 SED and Perestroika: Perceptions and Reactions -- Chapter 7 Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-reaction to Soviet Perestroika -- Part II Western Europe -- Chapter 8 Parallel Destinies The Italian Communist Party and Perestroika -- Chapter 9 “I Felt as If I Were Faced with a French Honecker” The French Communist Party Confronted with a World Falling Apart (1985–1991) -- Chapter 10 A Dialogue of the Deaf: The CPGB and the SED during the Gorbachev Era, 1985–1990 -- Chapter 11 Premature Perestroika: The Dutch Communist Party and Gorbachev -- Chapter 12 Perestroika and the Greek Left -- Chapter 13 The Austrian Communists and Perestroika -- Chapter 14 The Spanish Communist Party and Perestroika -- Afterword: Gorbachev and the End of International Communism -- Index
Summary: Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms’ collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for “proletarian internationalism” in diverse political contexts.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Perestroika: The Demise of the Communist World? -- Part I Eastern Europe -- Chapter 1 The Impact of Perestroika and Glasnost on the CPSU’s Stance toward the “Fraternal Parties” in the Eastern Bloc -- Chapter 2 Soviet Society, Perestroika, and the End of the USSR -- Chapter 3 Perestroika Made in Hungary? The HSWP’s Approach to the Soviet Reform of the Late 1980s -- Chapter 4 Yugoslavia and Perestroika, 1985–1991 Between Hope and Disappointment -- Chapter 5 The Polish United Workers’ Party and Perestroika -- Chapter 6 SED and Perestroika: Perceptions and Reactions -- Chapter 7 Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-reaction to Soviet Perestroika -- Part II Western Europe -- Chapter 8 Parallel Destinies The Italian Communist Party and Perestroika -- Chapter 9 “I Felt as If I Were Faced with a French Honecker” The French Communist Party Confronted with a World Falling Apart (1985–1991) -- Chapter 10 A Dialogue of the Deaf: The CPGB and the SED during the Gorbachev Era, 1985–1990 -- Chapter 11 Premature Perestroika: The Dutch Communist Party and Gorbachev -- Chapter 12 Perestroika and the Greek Left -- Chapter 13 The Austrian Communists and Perestroika -- Chapter 14 The Spanish Communist Party and Perestroika -- Afterword: Gorbachev and the End of International Communism -- Index

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Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms’ collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for “proletarian internationalism” in diverse political contexts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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