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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Towards a Multipolar History of Democracy.- Chapter 2: One too Many? Chinese Perspectives on Multiparty Politics.- Chapter 3: Submissive Helpers of the Socialist Unity Party? The Role and Function of Bloc Parties in the Multiparty System of the German Democratic Republic up to 1989/90 and Changes in Tasks of the Democratic Farmers’ Party of Germany.- Chapter 4: Socialist Self-Management: The Constitutional Vision of Democracy in Yugoslavia.- Chapter 5: Visions of Democracy and the Union Government Referendum: New Perspectives on Military Rule in Ghana, 1972-1978.- Chapter 6: “Not bourgeois democracy, but replacing this democracy with proletarian class rule”: The Communist Women’s Movement’s Vision of Democracy in the Early 1920s.- Chapter 7: ‘Cooperation, not Competition’: Democracy and Participation in Revolutionary Cuba.- Chapter 8: Assessing Socialist Democracy in Vietnam.- Chapter 9: Socialist Democracy in Yugoslav Municipalities and Local Communities, 1970s and 1980s.- Chapter 10: Practising People’s Democracy in a Small Polish Town: Communists and Socialists in Zyrardów, 1945–1947.- Chapter 11: Forms of Democracy and Socialist Self-Management in Czechoslovak Industry, 1945–1969.- Chapter 12: The Limits of Democracy: Labour Movement, Taken Factories, and the Popular Unity Government (Chile, 1970–1973).- Chapter 13: Socialist Democracy in Yugoslavia: Female Workers’ Participation at the Shop Floor.- Chapter 14:Industrial Participatory Democracy: A ‘Paper Tiger’ of the Zambian One-Party State and its Transnational Entanglements.
