NATIONAL COMMUNISM AND TRANSFORMATION OF OWNERSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPE 1945–1952
NATIONAL COMMUNISM AND TRANSFORMATION OF OWNERSHIP IN EASTERN EUROPE 1945–1952

Summary/Abstract: After Second World War in the countries of Eastern Europe i.e. the countries of „people’s democracy“, Party State was not created by direct revolutionary action (by the destruction of existing and the building a new political and state institutions of power) but by structural transformation of political institutions. The gaining of economic power by a Party state was very complex, because of „gradual and cautious policy“ of economic and political changes in those countries, as well as relationship of political and social forces on the interior and international level. On the other hand, for „People’s state“, gaining economic power was of crucial importance for the stabilization, maintaining and functioning of political power, because establishing of control over the process of social reproduction made it possible for Party state to control also the social relations and processes in it’s entirety, and so that consolidate it’s power without a wider application of an open and massive terror over population. The introduction of state ownership over means of production and a planned management in the countries of so-called „people’s democracy“ was linked to the process of structural assimilation of political structure of these countries and international relations between 1946–1947. In that period, coalition governments in these countries were relatively politically signifi cant, although they were socially and politically limited

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