1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796605203321

Titolo

Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / / edited by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-78920-845-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs

Disciplina

335.430947

Soggetti

Communism - Soviet Union - History

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 20th century

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 20th century

Communist countries Social conditions 20th century

Communist countries Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911040918403321

Titolo

Adaptation and the Edge Effects of Latin American Cultures / / edited by Elisabeth L. Austin, Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

3-032-01577-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 277 p. 13 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, , 2634-6303

Disciplina

791.436

Soggetti

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Motion pictures, American

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

Adaptation Studies

Latin American Film and TV

Latin American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Thomas Leitch -- Preface -- Elisabeth L. Austin and Elena Lahr-Vivaz, “Introduction: Latin American Adaptations on the Edge” -- Part I. Historical Hauntings and Archival Adaptations -- 1. Catalina Andrango-Walker, “Adapting and Questioning the Historical Archive in La venganza de las cautivas [The Revenge of the Captives]” -- 2. Martina Thorne, “From Naturalist and Inventor to Puppet and Christological Figure: The Story of Santiago de Cárdenas” -- 3. Marie Theresa Hernandez Ramirez, “Adaptation and Redemption[in Juan Nepomuceno Cortina]” -- 4. Andrew Reynolds, “‘Comprimidas Memorias’ [Compressed Memories]: Adaptations of the Modernista Movement through Autobiography” -- 5. Elisabeth L. Austin, “Cosmopolitics and the Edges of Adaptation in Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s Las aventuras de la China Iron [The Adventures of China Iron]” -- Part II. Adaptive Phantoms and Edge Ecologies -- 6. Timothy Corrigan and Anna Corrigan, “The Phantoms of French Cuba” -- 7. Aarón Lacayo, “A Haunting Ecology: Violence, Embodiment, and Guatemalan History in La



Llorona (The Weeping Woman, Jayro Bustamante,2019)” -- 8. Elena Lahr-Vivaz, “Aerial Adaptations and Archipelagic Identities in ‘The Flying Bus’” -- 9. Jacqueline Bixler, “From Redux to Redos: The Politics of Adaptation in the Theatre of Sabina Berman” -- 10. Rebecca Sheehan, “Iñárritu’s Edge Ecologies: The Butterfly Effect’s Border Erasure”.

Sommario/riassunto

This book delves into the vibrant and dynamic cultural landscape of Latin America, exploring the creative frictions that arise from the coexistence among, and tensions between, diverse cultures. Inviting readers to think through critical questions about cultural and textual adaptation, this book examines how stories, texts, genres, and cultural practices develop into configurations that are both distinct and intimately connected to their progenitors. The metaphor of the “edge effect,” borrowed from ecology, serves as a lens to understand these productive tensions. This book addresses a wide range of topics, including cultural change in the Americas, intertextual relationships, and adaptive histories. Ideal for scholars in Latin American studies, film studies, and adaptation studies, this book offers a novel analytical framework that enriches current academic practices and theories of hybridity, contact zones, and rhizomatic connections. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the complex interrelations between Latin American cultures and their textual and artistic expressions. Elisabeth L. Austin, Associate Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech, USA is author of Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America. Elena Lahr-Vivaz, Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University–Newark, USA is author of Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago and Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave. .