Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 2002-2 No 49-2, 2002/2 - 288 pagesSocial History of Power Struggles in Communist EuropePages 5 to 23IntroductionBy Sandrine KottPages 24 to 53Agrarian and Power Relations in Communist Romania: Agricultural Production Cooperatives Presented as Political BattlefieldsBy Antoine RogerPages 54 to 77Soviet Police and the Implementation of Penal Codes (1965 – 1986)By Gilles Favarel-GarriguesPages 78 to 101The Unlikely Autonomy of a “Satellite Party” About Power Relations between ZSL and PZPR in Communist Poland (1949 – 1989)By Frédéric ZalewskiPages 102 to 124Peripheral Power and “Democratic Centralism” in DDRBy Jay RowellPages 125 to 144The Complaints Bureau in USSR under Stalin (1928 – 1941)By François-Xavier NérardPages 145 to 175At the Border of Dictatorship: The Introduction of SED in East German Companies in the 1960sBy Michel ChristianPages 176 to 202Communist Political Police on the Move: The Czechs and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956By Muriel BlaivePages 203 to 223Hungarian Writers and Kádárian normalizationBy Anthony KrausePages 224 to 243ReviewsBy Sandrine Kott