Perestroika and the Party: National and Transnational Perspectives on European Communist Parties in the Era of Soviet Reform

Contents\nIntroduction. Perestroika: The Demise of the Communist World?\nPart I Eastern Europe\nChapter 1 The Impact of Perestroika and Glasnost on the CPSU’s Stance toward the “Fraternal Parties” in the Eastern Bloc\nChapter 2 Soviet Society, Perestroika, and the End of the USSR\nChapter 3 Perestroika Made in Hungary? The HSWP’s Approach to the Soviet Reform of the Late 1980s\nChapter 4 Yugoslavia and Perestroika, 1985–1991 Between Hope and Disappointment\nChapter 5 The Polish United Workers’ Party and Perestroika\nChapter 6 SED and Perestroika: Perceptions and Reactions\nChapter 7 Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-reaction to Soviet Perestroika\nPart II Western Europe\nChapter 8 Parallel Destinies The Italian Communist Party and Perestroika\nChapter 9 “I Felt as If I Were Faced with a French Honecker” The French Communist Party Confronted with a World Falling Apart (1985–1991)\nChapter 10 A Dialogue of the Deaf: The CPGB and the SED during the Gorbachev Era, 1985–1990\nChapter 11 Premature Perestroika: The Dutch Communist Party and Gorbachev\nChapter 12 Perestroika and the Greek Left\nChapter 13 The Austrian Communists and Perestroika\nChapter 14 The Spanish Communist Party and Perestroika\nAfterword: Gorbachev and the End of International Communism\nIndex