Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956–1991 1
7. 1 THE PARADOX OF PARTY DISCIPLINE IN THE KHRUSHCHEV-ERA COMMUNIST PARTY 23
8. 2 “IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO ALLOW PAST MISTAKES TO COME AGAIN” Recruitment Policy in the CPCS in the 1970s and 1980s 46
9. 3 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS The Erosion of SED Party Life in the 1980s 72
10. 4 THE SUCCESSIVE DISSOLUTION OF THE “UNCIVIL SOCIETY” Tracking SED Members in Opinion Polls and Secret Police Reports, 1969–1989 95
11. 5 ON THE WAY TO PARTY PLURALISM? The PZPR and the Reform of the Socialist Party System in 1988–1989 123
12. 6 COMMUNIST PARTY APPARATUSES AS STEERING ORGANIZATIONS Paths of Development in East Central Europe 143
13. 7 THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE DEPARTMENT OF PARTY ORGANS UNDER KHRUSHCHEV 168
14. 8 TRUE BELIEVERS BECOMING FUNDED EXPERTS? Personnel Profile and Political Power in the SED Central Commitee’s Sectoral Apparatus, 1946–89 190
15. 9 PATERNALISM IN LOCAL PRACTICE The Logic of Repression, Ideological Hegemony, and the Everyday Management of Society in an SED Local Secretariat 212
16. 10 THE SED BEZIRK SECRETARIES AS BROKERS OF TERRITORIAL INTERESTS IN THE GDR 237
17. 11 THE IDEA OF SOCIAL UNITY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MECHANISMS OF A TOTALITARIAN REGIME IN THE YEARS 1956–1980 259
18. 12 FOREIGN POLICYMAKING AND PARTY-STATE RELATIONS IN THE SOVIET UNION DURING THE BREZHNEV ERA 281
19. 13 ERICH HONECKER— THE “LEADING REPRESENTATIVE” A Generational Perspective 313
20. 14 INSIDE THE SYSTEM The CPSU Central Committ ee, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Komanda, and the End of Communist Rule in Russia 326
21. 15 THE IRONIES OF MEMBERSHIP The Ruling Communist Party in Comparative Perspective 352
22. Index 364