Introduction

political legitimacy, Weber and communist mono-organisational systems

T. H. Rigby

1-26

Legitimacy doctrines and legitimation procedures in East European systems

Georg Brunner

27-44

Phases of legitimation in Soviet-type societies

Agnes Heller

45-63

Paternalism as a mode of legitimation in Soviet-type societies

Ferenc Fehér

64-81

Overt and covert modes of legitimation in East European societies

Maria R. Markus

82-93

Personal dominance and the collective principle

individual legitimacy in Marxist—Leninist systems

Graeme Gill

94-110

Political legitimation in the German democratic republic

Henry Krisch

111-125

Eurocommunism and the quest for legitimacy

Robert F. Miller

126-145

The state, Marxism and political legitimation

R. N. Berki

146-169