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Communist Party In Power

Karel Kaplan | Fred H Eidlin
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780367306427
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Karel Kaplan spent eighteen years of his professional life in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in which he held positions at all echelons of the party hierarchy. His extensive experience and his access to the party's official archives form the basis for this unique account of the internal life and functioning of the Communist party. Although the CPCz has broken from Moscow's direct influence, Kaplan's description of party structure and function resemble those found in other parties under Communist rule. All are based on a monopoly of power, have a common social role and similar internal organization, and draw upon Soviet and Leninist principles of party construction. Focusing upon the actual working structure that exists behind the party's formal facade, Kaplan maintains that the party is able to function as the backbone of the power monopoly in Communist societies because all of its members are bound to it by ideological, power, social, and existential ties. These ties may vary in substance and effectiveness, but they operate at all levels and in all domains of the party organization. His insider's account of how power is brokered and maintained lends a unique perspective to our understanding of the party in Communist society today.
About Fred H Eidlin | Karel Kaplan

Fred Eidlin is associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). He studied at Dartmouth College, l'lnstitut d'Etudes Politiques de l'Université de Paris, Freie Universität Berlin, and Indiana University and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Toronto. From late 1968 to late 1969 he was a researcher specializing in Czechoslovak affairs at Radio Free Europe in Munich. He is the author of The Logic of ‘Normalization': The Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia of 21 August 1968 and the Czechoslovak Response, as well as numerous papers and articles on Czechoslovak politics, problems in the study of Soviet-type regimes, and problems of social and political inquiry. He has edited Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Comparative Politics and the Newsletter for Those Interested in the Philosophy of Karl Popper and cotranslated Ota Sik's For A Humane Economic Democracy.

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