Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
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Central and Eastern Europe after the First World War. Hrsg. von Burkhard Olschowsky, Piotr Juszkiewicz und Jan Rydel
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Jakub Szumski: Consentful Contention in Revolutionary Times: Debating Elite Corruption at Communist Party Congresses in Poland and East Germany
No full textExisting scholarship treats congresses of the ruling communist parties in the Eastern Bloc as staged performances intended to manufacture support and signal new policy trends. This article, using the examples of extraordinary party congresses held during revolutionary times in Poland (1981) and the German Democratic Republic (1989) offers another perspective. It looks at the events as spaces where rank-and-file delegates could contest particular decisions of their organization, while simultaneously straying away from more radical forms of dissent. This article follows and compares the actions of delegates in both countries by highlighting how they disrupted the agenda of the congresses over the question of elite corruption committed by former members of the party leadership and accountability for these wrongdoings. These episodes show that anti-corruption was a genuinely important moral preoccupation, as well as an argument for demanding change, and that, during the 1980s, ideas grounded in socialism still possessed major legitimacy.
Unter Beobachtung. Vertriebenenverbände im Blick der sozialistischen Sicherheitsdiens/ Under surveillance. The Monitoring of Expellee Organizations by the Socialist Security Services. Hrsg. von Stefan Lehr
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Tomasz Kamusella: Words in Space and Time. Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe
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Beata Możejko: Peter von Danzig. The Story of a Great Caravel, 1462–1475. Aus dem Poln. von Barbara Gostyńska
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Thies Schulze: Katholischer Universalismus und Vaterlandsliebe. Nationalitätenkon-flikte und globale Kirche in den Grenzregionen Ostoberschlesien und Elsass-Lothringen 1918–1939.
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