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This book examines the political parties which emerged in the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power, but merged with government itself.
List of contents
Introduction
Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira 1. The birth of Anfu China, East Asia's first party-state: Towards a constitutional dictatorship of the gentry, 1916-1918
Ernest Ming-tak Leung 2. The Communist International: A party of parties confronting interwar internationalisms, 1920-1925
Vsevolod Kritskiy 3. The Left Opposition and the practices of parliamentarianism within the Bolshevik Party, 1923-1924
Alexander V. Reznik 4. Importing and exporting ideas of nationalism and state-building: The experience of Turkey's Republican People's Party, 1923-1950
Paul Kubicek 5. Competing with the marketplace: The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)'s Department of Propaganda and its political publishing program, 1924-1937
Christopher A. Reed 6. Aspirations for a mass political party in prewar imperial Japan: Bureaucracy, the reformist right, and the creation of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Bruce Grover and Egas Moniz Bandeira 7. Constitution-making in the informal Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Inner Asia, 1945-1955
Ivan Sablin 8. Work teams, leading small groups, and the making of modern Chinese bureaucracy, 1929-1966
Long Yang 9. From revolutionary comrades to "mothers of the nation": The Workers' Party of Korea's approach to the role of women in the 1950s-1960s
Natalia Matveeva 10. The dawn before one-party dominance: South Korea's road to party politics under the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, 1961-1963
Kyonghee Lee 11. The Yugoslav federation and the concept of one ruling party in its final hour
Jure Gašpari¿ 12. The vanguard's changing tempo: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and government institutions, 1921-1990
Adéla Gjuri¿ová
About the author
Ivan Sablin is a research group leader in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany.
Egas Moniz Bandeira is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Summary
This book examines the political parties which emerged in the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power, but merged with government itself.
