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

This 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.

Sommario

List 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

Info autore

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helen Hardman, Hardman Helen, Hardman Helen
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9780719096648
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9664-8
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Perspectives on Democratic Pra; Perspectives on Democratic Practice
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Eastern Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Political structure & processes, Comparative Politics, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Political structure and processes