Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe: Democratisation Reconsidered - Couverture souple

Hardman, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719096642 ISBN 13 : 9780719096648

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-89, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, interviews and textual analysis identify a joint initiative among these fraternal communist parties to perpetuate the one-party system. For this purpose, fraternal parties were expected to follow the example of the CPSU in convening the national party conference, an all-party meeting on a similar scale to the five-yearly congress, and yet mysteriously, one which was barely described in the Party Statutes and rarely convoked. Gorbachev made use of CEE dependence on the Soviet Union for energy supplies to ensure that at least some fraternal parties followed his line.

This book will be of interest to those studying the transition process in CEE, democratisation, comparative politics more generally and students of research methods.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen Hardman is a Research Associate of the Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719096642
• ISBN 13: 9780719096648
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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