Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991

ISBN 10: 1785337769 ISBN 13: 9781785337765

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2018

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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.

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Jens Gieseke is head of the research department "Communism and Society" at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. His most recent publications include The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 (2014) and as co-editor, The Silent Majority in Communist and Post-Communist States: Opinion Polling in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (2016).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785337769
• ISBN 13: 9781785337765
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Bergien Rüdiger, Gieseke Jens
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