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Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet bloc, 1956-1991

Bergien, Rèudiger, editor, Gieseke, Jens, editor

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\"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.

• Publisher: Berghahn
• Subject: Communist parties Europe, Eastern History 20th century. / Communist parties Communist countries History. / Communism Soviet Union History 20th century. / 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.
• ISBN: 9781785337765

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JN96.A979 C655 2018	1	BOOK	GENERAL