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Inside Party Headquarters

Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

Rüdiger Bergien (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

486 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-048-0 (ISBN)

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Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the “party line” in all areas of society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a long period of the GDR’s history, from 1946 through 1989, Rüdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the complexities of the central party’s communist apparatus. He focuses on their role as ideological watchdogs, as they fostered an underbelly and “inner life” for their employees to integrate the party’s pillars throughout East German society. Inside Party Headquarters reviews not only the party’s modes power and state interaction, but also the processes of negotiation and disputation preceding formal Politburo decisions, advancing the available detail and discourse surrounding this formative and volatile stretch of German history.

Rüdiger Bergien is a Professor of Intelligence History at the Federal University for Applied Administrative Sciences, Berlin, Germany. His recent publications include the edited volume Communist Parties Revisited, Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991, New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.

List of Figures, Tables and Diagrams

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Between the KPD and the CPSU (1945-49)

Chapter 2. The Arduous Road to Power: The Central Committee Apparatus in the Decade of Building Socialism (1950-59)

Chapter 3. The Apparatus as a Communication Space

Chapter 4. A Brake on Reforms? The Apparatus in the Late Ulbricht Era (1960–70)

Chapter 5. “The MfS Only Comes Up to Our Chest”? The Central Committee Apparatus and State Security

Chapter 6. “In the General Staff of the Party”: The Honecker Apparatus (1971-85)

Chapter 7. “Funding Loyalty?”~

Chapter 8. Decaying Authority and Self-Dissolution: The Apparatus in the “Final Crisis”

Conclusion: The Assimilated “Superstate”

Interviews Cited

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-048-1 / 1805390481
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-048-0 / 9781805390480
Zustand	Neuware