Rüdiger Bergien 
Inside Party Headquarters [EPUB ebook] 
Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany

List of Figures, Tables and Diagrams
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Between the KPD and the CPSU (1945-49)
Chapter 2. The Arduous Road to Power: The Central Committee Apparatus in the Decade of Building Socialism (1950-59)
Chapter 3. The Apparatus as a Communication Space
Chapter 4. A Brake on Reforms? The Apparatus in the Late Ulbricht Era (1960–70)
Chapter 5. “The Mf S Only Comes Up to Our Chest”? The Central Committee Apparatus and State Security
Chapter 6. “In the General Staff of the Party”: The Honecker Apparatus (1971-85)
Chapter 7. “Funding Loyalty?”~
Chapter 8. Decaying Authority and Self-Dissolution: The Apparatus in the “Final Crisis”

Conclusion: The Assimilated “Superstate”

Interviews Cited
Bibliography
Index

Rüdiger Bergien is a Professor of Intelligence History at the Federal University for Applied Administrative Sciences, Berlin, Germany. His recent publications include the edited volume Communist Parties Revisited, Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991, New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.