احزاب کمونیست بازنگری شده: رویکردهای اجتماعی فرهنگی به حکومت حزبی در بلوک شوروی، ۱۹۵۶-۱۹۹۱

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. List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Communist Parties Revisited: Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 Ruediger Bergien and Jens GiesekeChapter 1. The Paradox of Party Discipline in the Khrushchev-Era Communist PartyEdward CohnChapter 2. "It is not possible to allow past mistakes to come again." Recruitment Policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980sMichel ChristianChapter 3. Behind Closed Doors: The Erosion of SED Party Life in the 1980sSabine PannenChapter 4. The Successive Dissolution of the "Uncivil Society." Tracking SED Party Members in Opinion Polls and Secret Police Reports, 1969-1989Jens GiesekeChapter 5. On the Way to Party Pluralism? The PZPR and the Reform of the Socialist Party System in 1988-1989Frederic ZalewskiChapter 6. Communist Party Apparatuses as Steering Organizations: Paths of Development in East Central EuropeChristoph BoyerChapter 7. The Central Committee Department of Party Organs under KhrushchevAlexander TitovChapter 8. True Believers Becoming Funded Experts? Personnel Profile and Political Power in the SED Central Committee's Sectoral Apparatus, 1946-89Ruediger BergienChapter 9. Paternalism in Local Practice: The Logic of Repression, Ideological Hegemony and the Everyday Management of Society in an SED Local SecretariatAndrea BahrChapter 10. The SED Bezirk Secretaries as Brokers of Territorial Interests in the GDRJay RowellChapter 11. The Idea of Social Unity and its Influence on the Mechanisms of a Totalitarian Regime in the Years 1956-1980Krzysztof DabekChapter 12. Foreign Policymaking and Party-State Relations in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era Mark KramerChapter 13. Erich Honecker - The "Leading Representative." A Generational PerspectiveMartin SabrowChapter 14. Inside the System The CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev's Komanda and the End of Communist Rule in Russia.Jan C. BehrendsChapter 15. The Ironies of Membership: The Ruling Communist Party in Comparative PerspectivePadraic KenneyIndex "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 Drawing from perspectives from within the everyday life of basic organizations and the practices of the party apparatuses, Communist Parties Revisited sheds light on the inner workings the Eastern Bloc, and the effects of state socialist policy on a micro historical level.