Becoming Post Communist

Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 9780197687215

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Becoming Post-Communist by Eli Lederhendler Pdf

"Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world's Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals: the overturning of the East European communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, as viewed from today's vantage point, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region-Jews and non-Jews alike-to secure their prospects for the future, highlighted fundamental issues about the nature and quality of the politics of memory, national identity, and the continuity and relative stability of regimes in the region. If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events"--

Author : Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633863701

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The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes by Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics Pdf

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.

Author : Michael Dobbins,Rafał Riedel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000391145

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Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist Policy-Making by Michael Dobbins,Rafał Riedel Pdf

This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, interest groups and lobbying, post-communism, transition and consolidation studies, and more broadly to European studies/politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at: http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003049562, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Richard Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134016709

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Understanding Post-Communist Transformation by Richard Rose Pdf

The fall of the Berlin Wall launched the transformation of government, economy and society across half of Europe and the former Soviet Union. This text deals with the process of change in former Communist bloc countries, ten of which have become new European Union (EU) democracies while Russia and her neighbours remain burdened by their Soviet legacy. Drawing on more than a hundred public opinion surveys from the New Europe Barometer, the text compares how ordinary people have coped with the stresses and opportunities of transforming Communist societies into post-Communist societies and the resulting differences between peoples in the new EU member states and Russia. Subjects covered by Understanding Post-Communist Transformation include: Stresses and opportunities of economic transformation Social capital and the development of civil society Elections and the complexities of party politics The challenges for the EU of raising standards of democratic governance Differences between Russia’s and the West’s interpretation of political life Written by one of the world's most renowned authorities on this subject, this text is ideal for courses on transition, post-communism, democratization and Russian and Eastern European history and politics.

Author : Robert Snyder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351307345

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Reporting the Post-communist Revolution by Robert Snyder Pdf

The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had imagined them on paper.In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and news bulletins, in the essays of Václav Havel, in the samizdat publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine, Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic life.If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons, Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the power of journalism.

Author : Kenneth Roberts,Bohdan Jung,Stan Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018421532

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Poland's First Post-communist Generation by Kenneth Roberts,Bohdan Jung,Stan Clark Pdf

This book identifies the immediate winners and losers, and compares the costs and benefits of Poland's transformation. The research was conducted by a team of British and Polish sociologists as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's East-West Programme.

Author : Karen Henderson,Neil Robinson
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Elections
ISBN : UOM:39015041344394

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Post-communist Politics by Karen Henderson,Neil Robinson Pdf

This up-to-date book provides chronological information on all of the countries of the formerly communist area of Europe since 1989, including electoral information, basic economics data, and descriptions of party development.

Author : Ivana Marková
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0197263135

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Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe by Ivana Marková Pdf

These ten essays are concerned with theoretical and empirical analyses of trust and distrust in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989. Differences between meanings of trust in countries with democratic traditions and in post-totalitarian countries raise questions about the ways in which history, culture and social psychology shape the nature and development of political phenomena. The authors show that while political and economic changes can have rapid effects, cultural and psychological changes may linger behind and influence the quality of political trust and representations of democracy.

Author : Ewa Ochman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135915933

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Post-Communist Poland – Contested Pasts and Future Identities by Ewa Ochman Pdf

This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy. The book outlines the detail of the new hegemonic national myths which are being established but also investigates fragmentation and diversification of commemorative practices at the local level that has the most potential to challenge the dominant vision of national Polish identity, historically centred on martyrdom, heroism and independence, as less relevant to Poland’s new aspirations for the future.

Author : Professor of Political Science M Steven Fish,Professor Department of Government Graeme Gill,Milenko Petrovic
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 331982824X

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A Quarter Century of Post-Communism Assessed by Professor of Political Science M Steven Fish,Professor Department of Government Graeme Gill,Milenko Petrovic Pdf

Author : Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456434

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Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille Pdf

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.

Author : Lavinia Stan,Nadya Nedelsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107065567

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Post-Communist Transitional Justice by Lavinia Stan,Nadya Nedelsky Pdf

Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.

Author : Michal Klíma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351332255

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Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe by Michal Klíma Pdf

This book offers a fascinating, thought-provoking and ground-breaking study of post-communist political life. It is published just as the countries of Central and Eastern Europe mark thirty years since gaining freedom and have embarked on the path of democracy. This book is one of the first full-length academic works to explore the question of how informal structures, headed by bosses, godfathers and oligarchs, affect formal party politics and democracy. The unique post-communist transition is observed as a specific historical moment of disorder, offering a window of opportunity for the large-scale exploitation of public resources in the sense of a kind of "Klondike Gold Rush." Phenomena of corruption, clientelism, patronage, party capture and state capture are topical themes that are deeply explored. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, democratisation, transitional societies, clientelism, party systems and more broadly of comparative and European politics.

Author : Ostap Kushnir,Oleksandr Pankieiev
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793650757

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Meandering in Transition by Ostap Kushnir,Oleksandr Pankieiev Pdf

The book addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition and identity building in Central Eastern Europe. It scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and discourses of belonging. It also traces the dynamics of national decision-making, institution-building and changing perceptions of the region by global actors.

Author : B lint Magyar
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155513541

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Post-Communist Mafia State by B lint Magyar Pdf

Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ