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OverviewThis book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-1989, 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 1987-1989 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. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helen Hardman , Bethan HirstPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780719079788ISBN 10: 0719079780 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Conference as an institution 2. The Conference as a policy choice: the CPSU Conference, 1905-1941 3. The rhetoric of reform or a consolidation of power? Gorbachev’s defeat of left and right at the Nineteenth CPSU Conference, June 1988 4. Keeping the ‘Outer Empire’ in step with the CPSU: Gorbachev’s policy of fraternal party alignment via the NPC 1987-8 5. Purging party factions: the HSWP National Conference, May 1988 6. Consolidating federal party unity at the LCY Conference, May 1988 7. Too little, too late: The PUWP Conference, 4-5 May 1989 Conclusion -- .Reviews<p>CHOICE Reviews - March 2013 issue, Vol. 50, No. 07<br><br>- Recommended Author InformationHelen Hardman is a Research Associate of the Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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