Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991

Ivan Sablin is a research group leader in the Department of History at Heidelberg University, Germany.Egas Moniz Bandeira is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

• Introduction Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz Bandeira 1. The birth of Anfu China, East Asia’s first party-state: Towards a constitutional dictatorship of the gentry, 1916–1918 Ernest Ming-tak Leung 2. The Communist International: A party of parties confronting interwar internationalisms, 1920–1925 Vsevolod Kritskiy 3. The Left Opposition and the practices of parliamentarianism within the Bolshevik Party, 1923–1924 Alexander V. Reznik 4. Importing and exporting ideas of nationalism and state-building: The experience of Turkey’s Republican People’s Party, 1923–1950 Paul Kubicek 5. Competing with the marketplace: The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)’s Department of Propaganda and its political publishing program, 1924–1937 Christopher A. Reed 6. Aspirations for a mass political party in prewar imperial Japan: Bureaucracy, the reformist right, and the creation of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association Bruce Grover and Egas Moniz Bandeira 7. Constitution-making in the informal Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Inner Asia, 1945–1955 Ivan Sablin 8. Work teams, leading small groups, and the making of modern Chinese bureaucracy, 1929–1966 Long Yang 9. From revolutionary comrades to "mothers of the nation": The Workers’ Party of Korea’s approach to the role of women in the 1950s–1960s Natalia Matveeva 10. The dawn before one-party dominance: South Korea’s road to party politics under the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, 1961–1963 Kyonghee Lee 11. The Yugoslav federation and the concept of one ruling party in its final hour Jure Gašparič 12. The vanguard’s changing tempo: Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and government institutions, 1921–1990 Adéla Gjuričová