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

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Helen Hardman Bethan Hirst

Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe

Democratisation Reconsidered

Helen Hardman, Bethan Hirst

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Manchester University Press
03 March 2015

Comparative politics; Political structure & processes; International relations

Series: Perspectives on Democratic Practice

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. -- .

By: Helen Hardman
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 349g
ISBN: 9780719096648
ISBN 10: 0719096642
Series: Perspectives on Democratic Practice
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 March 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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