Communist Parties Revisited - Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2018
Editors:	Rudiger Bergien • Jens Gieseke
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	383
ISBN-13:	978-1-78533-776-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	1-78533-776-9
Barcode:	9781785337765

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