Communist parties revisited

Titel: Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / edited by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke
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Veröffentlicht: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2018
Umfang: xii, 371 Seiten : Diagramme
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
ISBN: 9781785337765
Rezension/en: --Oou--McDermott, Kevin
--Oou--Shohat, Gil
--Oou--Goldstein, Thomas
--Oou--Segert, Dieter
Zusammenfassung: 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