Party leaders relied on ideological purity and saturation for control

Evidence

As a result, the KSCˇ leadership subsequently counted on the “saturation” of society by party members and structures to help establish party authority as legitimate and to maintain its control of Czechoslovakia. A large, committed, ideologically pure membership would guarantee the party’s sustained control over society and retain the same structures that brought the party into power in the free elections of 1946. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 177

Categorization

• QUESTION: Ideological purity is here the claimed cohesion mechanism rather than an external enemy — a case to check against the manufactured-threat hypothesis.
• XREF: connects to: Maintaining ideological rigidity blocks elite turnover and party renewal — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 221; Elites socialized in rigid party apparats cannot lead genuine reform — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 338

Broader Connections

• Maintaining ideological rigidity blocks elite turnover and party renewal #corroborates (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 221
• Elites socialized in rigid party apparats cannot lead genuine reform #corroborates (0.80) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 338