{"product_id":"communist-parties-revisited-rdiger-bergien-9781789208450","title":"Communist Parties Revisited: Sociocultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R?iger Bergien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789208459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789208450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"R?iger Bergien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941772951807,"sku":"9781789208450","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d6d4e384-171d-4d2a-9c8c-ed2839bb582a.jpg?v=1681454880","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/communist-parties-revisited-rdiger-bergien-9781789208450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}