{"title":"The Japanese Communist Party (JCP): Destination Unknown","authors":"Stephen Day","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.519190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.519190","url":null,"abstract":"Despite an 88-year history, the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) [Nihon Kyōsantō] remains largely unknown beyond Japan. Domestically, Japan's fifth largest party is saddled with an image that, for many, continues to provoke feelings of unease and doubt. During the past 13 years, following the 21st party congress of 1997, the party leadership of Kazuo Shii and Tetsuzo Fuwa, utilizing the phrase ‘Unity of principle and flexibility’, has sought to temper this unease by means of a series of organizational and ideational reforms that are intended to present a softer and more pragmatic image to the outside world while reassuring the party core that the JCP brand remains intact. The sustainability of this Janus-like approach, in the face of the contextual realities of Japanese party politics, is coming under severe pressure.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128114418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authoritarian Regimes of Russia and Tatarstan: Coexistence and Subjection","authors":"V. Mikhailov","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.519187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.519187","url":null,"abstract":"In some Russian republics, beginning with Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, a system of power based on a strong administrative ‘vertical’ was established ten years earlier than in Russia. Comparison of the most characteristic features of the authoritarian regime in Tatarstan and that of Russia in recent years reveals that the deployment of power in Russia under Putin and his successor and the system of Tatarstan government under President Mintimer Shaimiev are very similar. It is clear that Russia today functions as a nest of dolls (matrëshka) of authoritarian regimes, comprising central, regional and district levels. It differs in principle from the democratic federative state proclaimed in the Constitution of the Russian Federation.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"889 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115784396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Movement, National Histories: Recent Work on Communism in France and the USA","authors":"K. Morgan","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.519191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.519191","url":null,"abstract":"John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage (San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2003). Pp.x + 300; index. $25.95 (hardback). ISBN 1-893554-72-4. Michael E. Brown, The Historiography of Communism (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2009). Pp.ix + 218; notes; bibliography; index. $76.50 (hardback); $26.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-59213-921-3; 1-59213-922-1. Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928–35 (Champaign and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007; paperback 2009). Pp.xiv + 230; notes; index. $25.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-252-03206-3; 0-252-07638-1. Julian Mischi, Servir la classe ouvrière: Sociabilités militantes au PCF (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010). Pp.344. E19.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-2-7535-0984-9. Sylvain Boulouque and Frank Liaigre, Les listes noires du PCF (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2008). Pp.252. E20.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-2-70213853-3. Sylvain Boulouque and Pascal Girard (eds.), Traı̂tres et trahisons: guerres, imaginaires sociaux et constructions politiques (Paris: Seli Arslan, 2007). Pp. 224. E24.00. ISBN 978-2-84276-132-5. John Bulaitis, Communism in Rural France: French Agricultural Workers and the Popular Front (London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008). Pp.xiv + 250. £54.50 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-84511-708-5. Bernard Pudal, Un monde défait: Les communistes français de 1956 à nos jours (Brossieux: Éditions de croquant, 2009). Pp.215. E18.50 (paperback). ISBN 978-2-914968-60-7.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117024072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austria's First Test Case of Neutrality during the Hungarian Crisis, 1956–57","authors":"J. Granville","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.519188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.519188","url":null,"abstract":"Although the Hungarian revolution of 1956 ultimately shaped Austria's new identity as a uniquely neutral – yet not ‘spineless’ – country that could now help other countries in need, it also unravelled the earlier Austrian rapprochement with Hungary and the USSR that had facilitated the signing of the Austrian State Treaty on 15 May 1955. The uprising and subsequent Soviet crackdown revived Austrians' fears and memories of their own occupation by the Soviet Union and three Western Allies, stymied diplomats in Budapest, and gave communist authorities an excuse to accuse Austria of violating its oath of neutrality, stressing the issues of espionage and anti-communist propaganda. The crisis arguably gave the Khrushchev leadership second thoughts about the wisdom of withdrawing Soviet troops from eastern Austria. To pass its first test of neutrality, the Austrian government conducted its foreign policy discreetly, striving neither to coddle nor to offend the communist world and the ‘free world’.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128509834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reopening the Wounds of History? The Foreign Policy of the ‘Fourth’ Polish Republic","authors":"Christopher Reeves","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.519189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.519189","url":null,"abstract":"The 2005 parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland led to Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) coming to power. In the handling of its relations with the EU, Germany, Russia and the United States, the government broadly continued the same policies as its predecessors. However, there was a marked change in style, and the nationalistic overtones of the rhetoric emanating from Warsaw became increasingly pronounced. This was partly a consequence of the weakening of several internal foreign policy ‘stabilizers’. Relations between Poland and its two larger neighbours and the EU became increasingly strained. The government also continued to align Poland closely with the United States, although this approach became increasingly controversial.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132771568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network Mobilization and the Origins of the Putin Coalition","authors":"A. Buck","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.519184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.519184","url":null,"abstract":"How the Putin coalition rose to dominance remains a contested question. Theories of mobilization argue that organizational networks are important to the founding and success of political coalitions. Comparison of the organizational networks of rival coalitions in the city of Tambov provides insights into their origins and how they mobilize supporters. The Putin coalition drew on previously existing political structures that had been gaining strength during the Yeltsin years. This fledgling coalition enjoyed support from rank-and-file members of civic organizations, while its rivals founded top-heavy civic organizations that lacked substantial support from below.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127243720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politics Surrounding Gender Issues and Domestic Violence in Russia: What Is to Be Done, By Whom and How?","authors":"M. Buckley","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.496332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.496332","url":null,"abstract":"Julie Hemment, Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid and NGOs (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007). Pp.xv+188; index. $22.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 253 34839 0. Janet Elise Johnson, Gender Violence in Russia: The Politics of Feminist Intervention (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009). Pp.xv+230; index. £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 0 253 22074 5. Suvi Salmenniemi, Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia (London and New York: Routledge, 2008). Pp. xiv+264; index. £85.00 (hardback). ISBN 978 0 415 44112 4. Ol’ga Stuchevskaya, ‘Kharassment i Rossiiskie zhenshchiny’, Vestnik obshchestvennogo mneniya, 2008, No.4 (96), July–August, pp.43–9. Aleksandra V. Lysova, ‘Zhenskaya agressiya i nasilie v sem’e’, Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost’, 2008, No.3, pp.167–75.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116208968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Application and Applicability","authors":"O. Hankivsky, Anastasiya Salnykova","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.497752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.497752","url":null,"abstract":"Gender equality has gained substantial political importance in Ukraine, but implementation of the international trend towards ‘gender mainstreaming’ has had mixed success: the phrase is not yet part of the main political discourse, where older terms still prevail. The very term ‘gender’ is novel, and attitudes towards women reflect traditional concerns. Much legislation was adopted in the past decade, supposedly to enshrine gender equality; but this has not translated into meaningful social change. Social and economic conditions, including unfamiliarity with emerging global standards, preserve stereotyped thinking and militate against effective action. The issue does not feature strongly in education; women's organizations are weak; the media do not engage effectively with the issue; and ambivalent attitudes limit the impact of foreign sources of information and funding. These factors could all be deployed more effectively in order to bring Ukraine closer to world best practice. In addition, a more context-driven application of the gender mainstreaming model would result in its greater practical impact in the country.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127571091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Just Peace after the Georgian Civil War","authors":"S. B. Meredith","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.496330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.496330","url":null,"abstract":"The Georgian civil war may be at an end since Russia recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, even though no other country has followed suit except Nicaragua. Whether or not the current cessation of violence leads to peace depends on how these ‘new’ countries are treated by the international community. Peace in the region will require a radical shift in foreign aid policies, specifically an end to all assistance to the separatists, negotiations with Moscow to pick up the slack, and Russian compensation made to the nearly half-million Georgian ‘refugees’ for their lost property.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121328793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politicians Versus Intellectuals in the Lustration Debates in Transitional Latvia","authors":"I. Zaķe","doi":"10.1080/13523279.2010.496327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13523279.2010.496327","url":null,"abstract":"The process of transitional justice in Latvia after 1991 and the public debates that surrounded it created a number of controversies. One such notable conflict dealt with lustration, and it involved Latvia's political establishment and intelligentsia. While the politicians supported the public's right to have full access to the secret KGB files, the intellectuals demanded that Latvia's society should be protected from making mistakes in its judgments and therefore the available documentation should be studied first by state-appointed experts. Each position addressed the issue of lustration from a distinctive perspective, and these reflected not merely political disagreements. Instead, they reflected conflicts of vision that had deep historical roots.","PeriodicalId":206400,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133835295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}