Perestroika and the Party

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

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-132-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Francesco Di Palma (1980) is Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and Project Researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome. A former Teaching Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has published widely on European socialism and communism, fascism and antifascism, and cultural and Jewish history.

Introduction: Perestroika or about the Demise of the Communist World?

Francesco Di Palma

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

Peter Ruggenthaler

Chapter 2. Soviet Society, Perestroika, and the End of the USSR

Mark Kramer

Chapter 3. Perestroika Made in Hungary? The HSWP’s Approach to the Soviet Reform of the Late-1980s

Tamás Péter Baranyi

Chapter 4. Yugoslavia and Perestroika 1985-1991: Between Hope and Disappointment

Petar Dragišić

Chapter 5. The Polish United Workers Party and Perestroika

Wanda Jarząbek

Chapter 6. SED and Perestroika: Perceptions and Reactions

Hermann Wentker

Chapter 7. Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-Reaction to Soviet Perestroika

Stefano Bottoni

PART II: WESTERN EUROPE

Chapter 8. Parallel Destinies: The Italian Communist Party and Perestroika

Aldo Agosti

Chapter 9. “I felt as if I was faced with a French Honecker”: The French Communist Party Confronted with a World that was Falling Apart (1985-1991)

Dominique Andolfatto

Chapter 10. A Dialogue of the Deaf: The CPGB and the SED during the Gorbachev Era (1985-1990)

Stefan Berger and Norman LaPorte

Chapter 11. Premature Perestroika: The Dutch Communist Party and Gorbachev

Gerrit Voerman

Chapter 12. The Perestroika and the Greek Left

Andreas Stergiou

Chapter 13. The Austrian Communists and Perestroika

Maximilian Graf

Chapter 14. The Spanish Communist Party and Perestroika

Walther L. Bernecker

Afterword: Gorbachev and the End of International Communism

Silvio Pons

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-132-1 / 1805391321
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-132-6 / 9781805391326
Zustand	Neuware