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

Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the "party line" in...
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Author: Rüdiger Bergien
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Inside Party Headquarters: Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany by Bergien, Rüdiger

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

$641.95

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

$641.95
Author: Rüdiger Bergien
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Rüdiger Bergien
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 08/11/2023
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781805390480

About the Author

Rüdiger Bergien is a lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Humboldt University Berlin and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam. His publications include "Activating the 'Apparatchik' Brigade Deployment in the SED Central Committee and Performative Communist Party Rule," in Journal of Contemporary History 47, no. 4 (2012): 793-811 and the edited volume with Jens Gieske Communist Parties Revisited: Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 (Berghahn Books, 2018).


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