05329nam 2200865 450 991079660520332120220907153634.01-78920-845-910.1515/9781785337772(CKB)4100000001593334(MiAaPQ)EBC5216954(DE-B1597)637052(DE-B1597)9781785337772(EXLCZ)99410000000159333420180208h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCommunist parties revisited sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 /edited by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens GiesekeNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn,2018.©20181 online resource (383 pages) illustrations (some color), tables, graphs1-78533-776-9 1-78533-777-7 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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."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"--Provided by publisher.CommunismSoviet UnionHistoryEurope, EasternSocial conditions20th centuryEurope, EasternPolitics and government20th centuryCommunist countriesSocial conditions20th centuryCommunist countriesPolitics and government20th centurycivic.communist parties.eastern bloc countries.engaging.european history.everyday life.history.ideology.inner workings.marx.monolithic government.opaque institutions.political parties.political process.political science.political.politics.postwar europe.revolutionaries.russia.russian history.social issues.social problems.socialism communism.socialism.society.sociocultural approach.soviet bloc.transnational contexts.unprecedented power.CommunismHistory.335.430947Bergien RüdigerGieseke JensMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796605203321Communist parties revisited3706944UNINA