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

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Author:: Francesco Di Palma
Publisher:: Berghahn Books
Publication Date:: Nov 10, 2023
Number of pages:: 348 pages
Binding:: Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10:: 1805391321
ISBN-13:: 9781805391326

Overview

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.