| Titre | Fraternité ou formalité ? Les jumelages locaux entre partis communistes dans le bloc soviétique | |
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| Auteur | Michel Christian | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 66, janvier-mars 2015 Communismes et circulations transnationales | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema - Communismes et circulations transnationales |
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| Page | 53-67 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Fraternity or Formality? Local Relationships between Communist Parties in the Soviet Bloc In the wake of de-Stalinization, the regional leaderships of Eastern Bloc communist parties formed relationships with one another, exchanging delegations, documentary material, students, tourists and technicians. Some parties, such as those of the DDR and Czechoslovakia, established privileged relationships with one another that may be compared to those of sister cities. At once the result of diplomacy and more or less supervised local initiatives, these interactions were institutionalized as they became more widespread. While they were undeniably marked by curiosity, mutual observation and some degree of technical exchange, genuinely transnational practices did not play a prominent role in these relationships. No interpersonal networks truly emerged. While a priori unanticipated forms of re-appropriation occasionally existed in direct contacts between individuals, local political actors above all remained subject to the imperatives of the position they occupied in their national party apparatuses. Due to their extremely centralized mode of operation, communist parties thus reinforced the structure of already existing nation states. They were thus able to develop transnational discourses, values and perhaps even expectations while at the same time hampering their implementation. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
