Communist parties revisited : sociocultural approaches to party rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 / edited by Rüdiger Bergien and Jens Gieseke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergien, Rüdiger, editor.

Gieseke, Jens, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communist parties--Soviet Union--History.

Communist parties.

Communist parties--Social aspects--Soviet Union.

Communism--Soviet Union--History.

Communism.

Social aspects.

History.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 371 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785337765

1785337769

OCLC:

1024249113