 | Perestroika and the Party Countless studies have assessed the dramatic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, but their analysis of the impact on European communism has focused overwhelmingly on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations. This ambitious collection takes a much broader view, reconstructing and evaluating the historical trajectories of glasnost and perestroika on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Moving beyond domestic politics and foreign relations narrowly defined, the research gathered here constitutes a transnational survey of these reforms' collective impact, showing how they were variably received and implemented, and how they shaped the prospects for "proletarian internationalism" in diverse political contexts. Francesco Di Palma (1980) holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is currently a Senior Fellow at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut. A former Teaching Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has published widely on European socialism and communism, fascism and antifascism, and cultural and Jewish history. Francesco Di Palma (1980) holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is currently a Senior Fellow at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut. A former Teaching Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has published widely on European socialism and communism, fascism and antifascism, and cultural and Jewish history. |
