Rüdiger Bergien
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rüdiger Bergien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rüdiger |
| FAMILY NAME | Bergien |
| SIGNATURE | BERGIEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7900-8536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Inside Party Headquarters
Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the “party line” in all areas of society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a long period of the GDR’s history, from 1946 through 1989, Rüdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the complexities of the central party’s communist apparatus. He focuses on their role as ideological watchdogs, as they fostered an underbelly an…
Inside Party Headquarters
Communist Parties Revisited
Communist Parties Revisited
The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national a…
Zeitalter der Gewalt
The starting point of this volume, edited by Michael Geyer, Helmut Lethen, and Lutz Musner, is to question the idea of the First World War as ‘the great seminal catastrophe’ of the twentieth century. This interpretation, Michael Geyer argues in the preface, has the effect of monumentalising the war, a perception which has formed ‘like a shell around this event’ (p. 7). A further effect, Geyer claims, is the suggestion that the First World War bro…
Die Bellizistische Republik
Die bellizistische Republik
Die geheime Aufrüstung der Weimarer Republik basierte auf einem lagerübergreifenden Wehrkonsens. Von den Republikanern in den Krisen der ersten Jahre zunächst als Form des Republikschutzes mitgetragen, wurde die Unterstützung der "schwarzen Rüstungen" zu einem Element der Weimarer Staatsraison, die auch für die Republikaner verbindlich blieb – selbst dann, als die geheime personelle Rüstung, etwa in Gestalt der Grenzschutzmilizen im preußischen O…
Activating the ‘Apparatchik’
The Communist ruling parties of East Central and Eastern Europe in the post-1956 era developed ‘softer’ methods of staying in power, both vis-a-vis the societies they ruled as well as within the Party itself, methods which proved more effective than ‘purges’ and ‘party discipline’. This article investigates these methods, taking the East German ‘Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’ (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) or SED as a case study …
The Consensus on Defense and Weimar Prussia's Civil Service
The impact of the Reichswehr 's program of clandestine armament on Weimar Germany's civil society is a phenomenon largely overlooked by post-war historiography. Not only did it fail to identify the wide support enjoyed by the illegal preparations for a general mobilization on the national and local levels, but it also failed to address the question why the officials collaborated with the Reichswehr under the aegis of “national defense” at all. Th…
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The Consensus on Defense and Weimar Prussia's Civil Service
The impact of the Reichswehr 's program of clandestine armament on Weimar Germany's civil society is a phenomenon largely overlooked by post-war historiography. Not only did it fail to identify the wide support enjoyed by the illegal preparations for a general mobilization on the national and local levels, but it also failed to address the question why the officials collaborated with the Reichswehr under the aegis of “national defense” at all. Th…
Die bellizistische Republik
Die geheime Aufrüstung der Weimarer Republik basierte auf einem lagerübergreifenden Wehrkonsens. Von den Republikanern in den Krisen der ersten Jahre zunächst als Form des Republikschutzes mitgetragen, wurde die Unterstützung der "schwarzen Rüstungen" zu einem Element der Weimarer Staatsraison, die auch für die Republikaner verbindlich blieb – selbst dann, als die geheime personelle Rüstung, etwa in Gestalt der Grenzschutzmilizen im preußischen O…
Activating the ‘Apparatchik’
The Communist ruling parties of East Central and Eastern Europe in the post-1956 era developed ‘softer’ methods of staying in power, both vis-a-vis the societies they ruled as well as within the Party itself, methods which proved more effective than ‘purges’ and ‘party discipline’. This article investigates these methods, taking the East German ‘Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands’ (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) or SED as a case study …
Die Bellizistische Republik
Communist Parties Revisited
Communist Parties Revisited
The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national a…
Zeitalter der Gewalt
The starting point of this volume, edited by Michael Geyer, Helmut Lethen, and Lutz Musner, is to question the idea of the First World War as ‘the great seminal catastrophe’ of the twentieth century. This interpretation, Michael Geyer argues in the preface, has the effect of monumentalising the war, a perception which has formed ‘like a shell around this event’ (p. 7). A further effect, Geyer claims, is the suggestion that the First World War bro…
Inside Party Headquarters
Everyday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the “party line” in all areas of society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a long period of the GDR’s history, from 1946 through 1989, Rüdiger Bergien presents the first study that examines the complexities of the central party’s communist apparatus. He focuses on their role as ideological watchdogs, as they fostered an underbelly an…
Inside Party Headquarters
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Communism (4 works) · European history and politics (4 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · 20th century (2 works)