LEADER 05329nam 2200865 450 001 9910796605203321 005 20220907153634.0 010 $a1-78920-845-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785337772 035 $a(CKB)4100000001593334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5216954 035 $a(DE-B1597)637052 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785337772 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001593334 100 $a20180208h20182018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aCommunist parties revisited $esociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 /$fedited by Ru?diger Bergien and Jens Gieseke 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (383 pages) $cillustrations (some color), tables, graphs 311 $a1-78533-776-9 311 $a1-78533-777-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCommunist parties revisited: cultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / Ru?diger 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 / Fre?de?ric 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 / Ru?diger 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 Da?bek -- 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. 330 $a"The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national and transnational contexts, the contributions assembled here reconstruct the rituals of party meetings, functionaries' informal practices, intra-party power struggles, and the social production of ideology to give a detailed account of state socialist policymaking on a micro-historical scale"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCommunism$zSoviet Union$xHistory 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aCommunist countries$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aCommunist countries$xPolitics and government$y20th century 610 $acivic. 610 $acommunist parties. 610 $aeastern bloc countries. 610 $aengaging. 610 $aeuropean history. 610 $aeveryday life. 610 $ahistory. 610 $aideology. 610 $ainner workings. 610 $amarx. 610 $amonolithic government. 610 $aopaque institutions. 610 $apolitical parties. 610 $apolitical process. 610 $apolitical science. 610 $apolitical. 610 $apolitics. 610 $apostwar europe. 610 $arevolutionaries. 610 $arussia. 610 $arussian history. 610 $asocial issues. 610 $asocial problems. 610 $asocialism communism. 610 $asocialism. 610 $asociety. 610 $asociocultural approach. 610 $asoviet bloc. 610 $atransnational contexts. 610 $aunprecedented power. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory. 676 $a335.430947 702 $aBergien$b Ru?diger 702 $aGieseke$b Jens 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796605203321 996 $aCommunist parties revisited$93706944 997 $aUNINA