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| Author | : Rüdiger Bergien |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2018-01-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1785337777 |
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.
| Author | : András Bozóki |
| Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780765609861 |
After providing a theoretical overview and discussions of study methodology, Bozoki (political science, Central European U., Hungary) and Ishiyama (political science, Truman State U.) present separate examinations of the development of those parties that are the prime inheritors of personnel and resources from the former ruling parties of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, and Russia. After the single-country case studies, a series of seven comparative case studies are presented, focusing on such issues as organization and ideology, party consolidation, party system institutionalization, cleavage structure, and organizational strength. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
| Author | : Francesco Di Palma |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2019-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1789200210 |
Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms’ collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for “proletarian internationalism” in diverse political contexts.
| Author | : W. Kemp |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 1999-02-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0230375251 |
Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union looks at communism's attempts to come to terms with nationalism between Marx and Yeltsin, how the inability of communist theorists and practitioners to achieve an effective synthesis between nationalism and communism contributed to communism's collapse, and what lessons that holds for contemporary Europe.
| Author | : Péter Bajomi-Lázár |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2014-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9633860423 |
This book compares media and political systems in East-Central as well as in Western Europe in order to identify the reasons possibly responsible for the extensive and intensive party control over the media. This phenomenon is widely experienced in many of the former communist countries since the political transformation. The author argues that differences in media freedom and in the politicization of the news media are rooted in differences in party structures between old and new democracies, and, notably, the fact that young parties in the new members of the European Union are short of resources, which makes them more likely to take control of and to exploit media resources.
| Author | : Nikos Marantzidis |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2023-02-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501767674 |
Under Stalin's Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various Communist parties of Southeastern Europe, as Nikos Marantzidis shows that Communism's international institutions (Moscow Center, Comintern, Balkan Communist Federation, Cominform, and sister parties in the Balkans) were not merely external factors influencing orientation and policy choices. Based on research from published and unpublished archival documents located in Greece, Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, and the Balkan countries, Under Stalin's Shadow traces the KKE movement's interactions with fraternal parties in neighboring states and with their acknowledged supreme mentors in Stalin's Soviet Russia. Marantzidis reveals how, because the boundaries between the national and international in the Communist world were not clearly drawn, international institutions, geopolitical soviet interests, and sister parties' strategies shaped in fundamental ways the KKE's leadership, its character and decision making as a party, and the way of life of its followers over the years.
| Author | : Herbert Kitschelt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 1999-08-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521658904 |
Examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the 1990s. The work illustrates developments regarding different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in alliances. Wider groups of countries are also compared.
| Author | : Melissa Feinberg |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2021-12-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000518337 |
Communism in Eastern Europe is a ground-breaking new survey of the history of Eastern Europe since 1945. It examines how Communist governments came to Eastern Europe, how they changed their societies and the legacies that persisted after their fall. Written from the perspective of the 21st century, this book shows how Eastern Europe’s trajectory since 1989 fits into the longer history of its Communist past. Rather than focusing on high politics, Communism in Eastern Europe concentrates on the politics of daily life, melding political history with social, cultural and gender history. It tells the history of this complicated era through the voices and experiences of ordinary people. By focusing on the complex interactions of everyday life, Communism in Eastern Europe illuminates the world Communism made in Eastern Europe, its politics and culture, values and dreams, successes and failures. This book is an engaging introduction to the history of Communist Eastern Europe for any reader. It is ideal for adoption in a wide array of undergraduate and graduate courses in 20th century European history.
| Author | : Péter Apor |
| Publisher | : Anthem Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 2017-09-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783087250 |
The collection of essays in Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe addresses institutions that develop the concept of collaboration, and examines the function, social representation and history of secret police archives and institutes of national memory that create these histories of collaboration. The essays provide a comparative account of collaboration/participation across differing categories of collaborators and different social milieux throughout East-Central Europe. They also demonstrate how secret police files can be used to produce more subtle social and cultural histories of the socialist dictatorships. By interrogating the ways in which post-socialist cultures produce the idea of, and knowledge about, “collaborators,” the contributing authors provide a nuanced historical conception of “collaboration,” expanding the concept toward broader frameworks of cooperation and political participation to facilitate a better understanding of Eastern European communist regimes.
| Author | : Vladimir Tismaneanu |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2003-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520237471 |
This history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) traces its origins as a tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s, to its years in national power from 1944 to 1989, and to the post-1989 metamorphoses.
