Perestroika and the Party

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collective impact
demise of communism
domestic policies
dramatic reforms
eastern bloc
eastern europe
end of ussr
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european communism
european communist party
european economics
glasnost
international policy
iron curtain
mikhail gorbachev
perestroika
postwar history
proletarian internationalism
soviet union
transnational survey
western europe

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  • ISBN 9781805391326
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.

Francesco Di Palma (1980) is Associate Professor at the University of Vienna and Project Researcher at the German Historical Institute in Rome. A former Teaching Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has published widely on European socialism and communism, fascism and antifascism, and cultural and Jewish history.