The Origin of the Communist Autocracy

Schapiro, Leonard

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“…Everything stands for something else, and is a duplicate in a never-ending chain of duplication (Lewin, 1985;Pipes, 1996, pp. 10-11;Shapiro, 1977). The alternation between these poles can be linked to the changes that took place in postwar Hungary.…”

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Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power

Horvath

1998

Political Psychology

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This paper is an experiment in understanding the logic of communism from the perspective of political psychology. In Hungary, communism became a means for transforming the entire psychical make-up of a country in a moment of reduced intensity of consciousness, a transitory or liminal period, produced by the Second World War. In liminal conditions, unconscious impulses are set free that are channeled by the use of archetypical images. As an empirical case study, this paper discusses the speeches of the first post-war Hungarian Communist Party leader, Mátyás Rákosi, delivered in the years immediately after the devastations of the war, in an effort to discern the techniques and mechanisms by which the Communist Party managed to capture the allegiance of a large segment of the population. The analysis of these speeches and their effects indicates that communism was not merely a consequence of Soviet occupation, and therefore the withdrawal of the troops did not eliminate the lasting, mostly hidden but still predominant, effects of communism on the countries that were in its grip.

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Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power

Horvath

1998

Political Psychology

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“…* Demobilization (removing the organizational bases for unofficial political action) may be the most important means to departicipation; for as Huntington and Nelson (1976, 85) point out, "An increasing body of evidence suggests that organizational involvement may be more important than socioeconomic status in explaining differences in political participation" (Perlmutter 1981, 24-28, 180). Demobilization eliminates independent organizations or the independence of organiza-tions (Schapiro 1977;Selznick 1952). It is more limited in objective than atomization but in extreme forms may produce this (Dallin and Breslauer 1970, 49-55;Moore 1954, 415-17).…”

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Modernization and Participation in the Leninist Developmental Strategy

Roeder

1989

Am Polit Sci Rev

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The Soviet Union achieved its stability in the early stages of development not by institutionalizing participation but by forcing departicipation and substituting a functionally distinct form of political activity—involvement in co-production. These policies constitute essential complements in the Leninist developmental strategy. The ability of enlisted involvement to block the growth of participatory pressures tends to decline in later stages of development, however. The result is spontaneous withdrawal from the institutions of coproduction and the rise of participatory pressures. This pattern is documented with evidence from Soviet electoral and membership statistics, Soviet reports of opinion surveys, Western interviews of Soviet émigrés, and cross-national estimates of political dissidence. The Leninist crisis of participation requires a policy response to close the participation-institution gap once again. The alternative policy responses of Soviet general secretaries are characterized as totalitarian, authoritarian, liberal, and socialist.

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Out of the Dustbin of History

Raleigh¹

1999

Politics and Society Under the Bolsheviks

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The Origin of the Communist Autocracy

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Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power

Tricking into the Position of the Outcast: A Case Study in the Emergency and Effects of Communist Power

Modernization and Participation in the Leninist Developmental Strategy

Out of the Dustbin of History

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