Communist Parties Revisited : Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction - Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 -- Chapter 1 - The Paradox of Party Discipline in the Khrushchev-Era Communist Party -- Chapter 2 - "It Is Not Possible to Allow Past Mistakes to Come Again": Recruitment Policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980s -- Chapter 3 - Behind Closed Doors: The Erosion of SED Party Life in the 1980s -- Chapter 4 - The Successive Dissolution of the "Uncivil Society": Tracking SED Members in Opinion Polls and Secret Police Reports, 1969-1989 -- Chapter 5 - On the Way to Party Pluralism?: The PZPR and the Reform of the Socialist Party System in 1988-1989 -- Chapter 6 - Communist Party Apparatuses as Steering Organizations: Paths of Development in East Central Europe -- Chapter 7 - The Central Committee Department of Party Organs under Krushchev -- Chapter 8 - True Believers Becoming Funded Experts? Personnel Profile and Political Power in the SEC Central Commitee's Sectoral Apparatus, 1946-89 -- Chapter 9 - Paternalism in Local Practice: The Logic of Repression, Ideological Hegemony, and the Everyday Management of Society in an SED Local Secretariat -- Chapter 10 - The SED Bezirk Secretaries as Brokers of Territorial Interests in the GDR -- Chapter 11 - The Idea of Social Unity and Its Influence on the Mechanisms of a Totalitarian Regime in the Years 1956-1980 -- Chapter 12 - Foreign Policymaking and Party-State Relations in the Soviet Union during the Brezhnev Era -- Chapter 13 - Erich Honecker-The "Leading Representative": A Generational Perspective -- Chapter 14 - Inside the System: The CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev's Komanda, and the End of Communist Rule in Russia. Chapter 15 - The Ironies of Membership: The Ruling Communist Party in Comparative Perspective -- Index.
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