Abstract

WITKER, Ivan. Mare crisium: plots and conspiracies as political mechanism to solve the succesion in the Communist regimes. Relac. int. [online]. 2018, vol.27, n.55, pp.69-88. ISSN 2314-2766.

Communist regimes lacked political mechanisms to solve disputes about how  to replace the party and state’s leader as they failed to take into consideration participa- tory mechanisms to channel internal drives. Nor were there spaces for critical thinking, dissent, free flow of information or open discussion. The highest position of authority seemed to be conceived ad eternum and immune to criticism. Inner partisan life was grayish, strictly hierarchical and strongly surveillanced. Therefore, each and every re- placement was preceded by both conspiracies and inner disloyalties. The paper examines three paradigmatic cases of unsuccessful attempts of relatively agreed upon succesions: Roberto Robaina in Cuba, Werner Lamberz in the German Democratic Republic and Lin Biao in the People's Republic of China.

Keywords : Communist regimes; PR China; East Germany; Cuba.

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