Perestroika and the Party: National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform

Media type: E-Book

Title: Perestroika and the Party : National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction. Perestroika: The Demise of the Communist World?
Part I Eastern Europe
Chapter 1 The Impact of Perestroika and Glasnost on the CPSU's Stance toward the "Fraternal Parties" in the Eastern Bloc
Chapter 2 Soviet Society, Perestroika, and the End of the USSR
Chapter 3 Perestroika Made in Hungary? The HSWP's Approach to the Soviet Reform of the Late 1980s
Chapter 4 Yugoslavia and Perestroika, 1985-1991 Between Hope and Disappointment
Chapter 5 The Polish United Workers' Party and Perestroika
Chapter 6 SED and Perestroika: Perceptions and Reactions
Chapter 7 Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania's Non-reaction to Soviet Perestroika
Part II Western Europe
Chapter 8 Parallel Destinies The Italian Communist Party and Perestroika
Chapter 9 "I Felt as If I Were Faced with a French Honecker" The French Communist Party Confronted with a World Falling Apart (1985-1991)
Chapter 10 A Dialogue of the Deaf: The CPGB and the SED during the Gorbachev Era, 1985-1990
Chapter 11 Premature Perestroika: The Dutch Communist Party and Gorbachev
Chapter 12 Perestroika and the Greek Left
Chapter 13 The Austrian Communists and Perestroika
Chapter 14 The Spanish Communist Party and Perestroika
Afterword: Gorbachev and the End of International Communism
Index

Contributor: Agosti, Aldo [Contributor]; Andolfatto, Dominique [Contributor]; Baranyi, Tamás Péter [Contributor]; Berger, Stefan [Contributor]; Bernecker, Walther L. [Contributor]; Bottoni, Stefano [Contributor]; Dragišić, Petar [Contributor]; Graf, Maximilian [Contributor]; Jarząbek, Wanda [Contributor]; Kramer, Mark [Contributor]; LaPorte, Norman [Contributor]; Palma, Francesco Di [Contributor]; Palma, Francesco Di [Editor]; Pons, Silvio [Contributor]; Ruggenthaler, Peter [Contributor]; Stergiou, Andreas [Contributor]; Voerman, Gerrit [Contributor]; Wentker, Hermann [Contributor]

Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2019]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781789200218

ISBN: 9781789200218

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RVK notation: NQ 8273 : Allgemeines

Keywords: Communism Europe History 20th century ; Communist parties Europe History 20th century ; Glasnost History ; Perestroĭka History ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century ; collective impact ; demise of communism ; domestic policies ; dramatic reforms ; eastern bloc ; eastern europe ; end of ussr ; european communism ; european communist party ; european economics ; glasnost ; international policy ; iron curtain ; mikhail gorbachev ; perestroika ; postwar history ; proletarian internationalism ; soviet union ; transnational survey ;

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Footnote: In English

Description: Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms' collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for "proletarian internationalism" in diverse political contexts

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