Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe

Name: Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780719096648
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Democratisation Reconsidered

By Helen Hardman

Series: Perspectives on Democratic Practice

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Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe examines the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe from 1987 to 1989. Helen Hardman explores how Gorbachev encouraged perestroika across communist regimes outside the Soviet Union, using archival materials, interviews, and textual analysis to reveal the fraternal parties' efforts to maintain one-party rule. The book highlights the strategic use of national party conferences and Soviet energy dependence as tools in this political transition.
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Ideal for students and scholars of Eastern European history, democratisation, comparative politics, and research methods.

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.

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This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-89, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union.

Archival materials, interviews, and textual analysis identify a joint initiative among these fraternal communist parties to perpetuate the one-party system. For this purpose, fraternal parties were expected to follow the example of the CPSU in convening the national party conference, an all-party meeting on a similar scale to the five-yearly congress, and yet mysteriously, one which was barely described in the Party Statutes and rarely convoked.

Gorbachev made use of CEE dependence on the Soviet Union for energy supplies to ensure that at least some fraternal parties followed his line. This book will be of interest to those studying the transition process in CEE, democratisation, comparative politics more generally and students of research methods.