Party successors could buy regeneration time by manufacturing an internal federal enemy

Evidence

The Slovak party, like its Czech master, also refused to negotiate with society and similarly capitulated in November 1989. However, it had a ready (if small) pool of reformists at the Marxist-Leninist Institute, and the chaos within the party that surrounded the rapid transition allowed them to enter the party’s decision-making structures. Moreover, these new elites gained time to regenerate the party by consistently arguing that the federation with the Czech party was keeping the Slovak wing from developing its potential. — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 343

Categorization

• XREF: The Czech-vs-Slovak blame dynamic parallels the reader’s core question about manufactured enemies sustaining in-group solidarity. — connects to: Successor party rebirth required time and an incumbent to contrast against — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 971; Party survival hinges on internal actions, not external transition pressures — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 59; Discredited ancien regime parties can survive collapse and win power through regeneration — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past: The…, 46

Broader Connections

• Party survival hinges on internal actions, not external transition pressures #expands (0.80) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 59
• Successor party rebirth required time and an incumbent to contrast against #expands (0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 971
• Discredited ancien regime parties can survive collapse and win power through regeneration #corroborates (0.75) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 46