Inside Party Headquarters

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.

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 MfS 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