{"product_id":"communist-parties-revisited-sociocultural-approaches-to-party-rule-in-the-soviet-bloc-1956-1991-paperback","title":"Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRüdiger Bergien\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJens Gieseke\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eCommunist Parties Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJens Gieseke\u003c\/strong\u003e is head of the research department \"Communism and Society\" at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. His most recent publications include \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990\u003c\/em\u003e (2014) and as co-editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Silent Majority in Communist and Post-Communist States: Opinion Polling in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe\u003c\/em\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 383\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637483761971,"sku":"9781789208450","price":75.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cITqQ790_u9781789208450.webp?v=1762289651","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/communist-parties-revisited-sociocultural-approaches-to-party-rule-in-the-soviet-bloc-1956-1991-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}