AUTHOR:
Hennadii Shypunov
ABSTRACT:
The current article defines basic principles of the communist parties’ structural organization. The thorough analysis of the peculiarities inherent to democratic centralism is represented as a core principle of the structural and organizational model, which is important for development and functioning of the left, primarily communists’ parties. The specifics of democratic centralism standards implementation are determined for various types of political regime. This study reveals that the liberalization and democratization of a particular political regime are determined to strengthen a democratic component in the activities of the party. In addition, this investigation proves that authoritarianization of a certain regime leads to the strengthening of authoritarian tendencies within the party, moreover, this process has a crucial emphasis that is set on harsh centralism and hierarchy in order to increase the role of a leader in the general system of the party.
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