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David Tompkins' Composing the Party Line is a unique work in that he undertakes a transnational comparative analysis of specific cultural aspects of the Stalinist period, namely the production, performance and reception of music, primarily classical and modern music, but also popular music like mass songs and entertainment combining music and spoken word. Unless the reader is already familiar with the history of Stalinism in Poland and the GDR, it is best to read this work with other books on the cultural history of the period.

Stephen Padgett is highly regarded for his scholarship on
parties and other aspects of politics in the Federal Republic
of Germany. In the present work he focuses on the "hesitant"
emergence of associational activity in the postcommunist
societies of eastern and central Europe, with particular
emphasis on economic interest groups in eastern Germany.
His tightly written book seeks to document and, above all,
explain this state of affairs. The retarded growth of interest
groups in the region is an important and relatively neglected
topic, at both the theoretical and empirical levels aimed for
here. It is also a development that has run counter to the
once widely expected emergence of a vigorous pluralist civil
society that would accompany the region's transition to
market economics and democratic politics.

Review of the following books:Gal, Susan and Gail Kligman. 2000. The Politics of Gender After Socialism: A Comparative Historical Essay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Galligan, Yvonne, Sara Clavero, and Marina Calloni. 2007. Gender Politics and Democracy in Post-Socialist Europe. Opladen, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers.Guenther, Katja M. 2010. Making Their Place: Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.