Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reed -- Aspirations for a mass political party in prewar imperial Japan : bureaucracy, the reformist right, and the creation of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association / Bruce Grover and Egas Moniz Bandeira -- Constitution-making in the informal Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Inner Asia, 1945-1955 / Ivan Sablin -- Work teams, leading small groups, and the making of modern Chinese bureaucracy, 1929-1966 / Long Yang -- From revolutionary comrades to "mothers of the nation" : the Workers' Party of Korea's approach to the role of women in the 1950s-1960s / Natalia Matveeva -- The dawn before one-party dominance : South Korea's road to party politics under the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, 1961-1963 / Kyonghee Lee -- The Yugoslav federation and the concept of one ruling party in its final hour / Jure Gašparič -- The vanguard's changing tempo : Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and government institutions, 1921-1990 / Adéla Gjuričová…”