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Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521493659
An authoritative study that covers the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973.
Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 052149365X
The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc countries joining the European Union. Taking the OPEC oil crisis of 1973 as his starting point, he charts the gradual unravelling of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, its ultimate collapse in the revolutions of 1989, and the economic restructuring and lasting changes in income, employment, welfare, education and social structure which followed. He pays particular attention to the crucial role of the European Union as well as the social and economic hurdles that continue to face former Eastern-bloc nations as they try to catch up with their Western neighbours. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of European and economic history, European politics and economics.
Author : Brigitte Schulz,William W. Hansen,Robin A Remington,Istvan Dobozi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000305647
This volume deals with the nature of the relationship between the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and those of the Third World, offering some background to the decline in the Soviet Union's international position, both politically and economically.
Author : Jim Seroka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429724909
This book traces the evolution of Soviet and East European responses to the multifaceted pressures of a rapidly changing world and looks at the implications of ideological developments in the Soviet bloc for economic reforms, general policymaking, and political and social change. The authors discuss the concept of developed socialism and its essential components as seen in communist societies; analyze current policy and likely future policy directions in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia in light of the concept; and assess the impact that ideological trends have had, and are likely to have, on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in general.
Author : Günther Heydemann,Karel Vodička
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785333187
More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany—that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU.
Author : A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789639776807
"It was not a matter of propaganda ... black and white ideological broadcasts ... What made [Radio Free Europe] important were its impartiality, independence, and objectivity."---Vaclav Havel "Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were critically important weapons in the free world's competition with Soviet totalitarianism---and without them the Soviet bloc might even have not disintegrated ... The account in this book of their activities is therefore not only informative, but critical to understanding recent history."---Zbigniew Brzezinski "The studies and translated Soviet bloc documents published in this book demonstrate the enormous impact of Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Voice of America during the Cold War. By promoting democratic values and undermining the monopoly of information on which Communist regimes relied, the Radios contributed greatly to the end of the Cold War."---George P. Shultz "I know of no other mass media organization that has done more than RFE/RL to help create the Europe in which we live today---a Europe not divided into two opposing camps."---Elena Bonner Examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
Author : Birgitte H. Schulz,William W. Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : OCLC:488043750
Author : Brigitte Schulz,William W Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367311402
This volume deals with the nature of the relationship between the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and those of the Third World, offering some background to the decline in the Soviet Union's international position, both politically and economically.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Communist countries
ISBN : LOC:00099588883
Examines Soviet Union's control of East European countries' cultural activities and human rights violations and assesses impact of Soviet activities on U.S foreign policy, pt. 1; Focuses on Soviet Union's control of Eastern European countries' economic and political activities, pt. 2.
Author : Dimitris Papadimitriou,Professor of Politics and Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (Jmce) Dimitris Papadimitriou, Dr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1138738123
In 1989 the Strasbourg European Council agreed on a new form of Association with the former Soviet states of Eastern Europe. This study examines the evolution of EC relations with former Eastern bloc states within this new and developing Association.
Author : Ainius Lasas
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000067810505
Following the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, many Central and Eastern European Countries launched a vigorous “return to Europe” campaign, which primarily focused on accession to NATO and the European Union. By 2007, ten countries became members of the Euro-Atlantic community, personifying the long-awaited reunification and reconciliation of Europe. The book argues that the EU and NATO eastern enlargements represent a settlement of historical-psychological accounts for countries affected by the “black trinity”: the Munich Agreement, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and the Yalta-Potsdam Conferences.
Author : Charles Gati
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043079743
..". lucid and stimulating... " The New York Times Book Review "Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the new Eastern Europe and the collapse of Soviet control over it informative and incisive." Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gati s book... is the most current and best-informed study of this rapidly changing world.... Professor Gati is uniquely qualified to understand and give perspective to the impact of perestroika and Soviet new thinking on the events in Eastern Europe." William H. Luers, Former U. S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia ..". a superb synthesis of the postwar evolution of Soviet-East European relations and the first up-to-date analysis of the revolutionary events in that part of the world in 1989." Michael Mandelbaum, Council on Foreign Relations "An up-to-date and lucid overview of the troubled course of Soviet-East European relations at time of momentous change in the Soviet bloc." Sarah M. Terry ..". excellent analysis and synthesis... " Foreign Affairs "this book is written in a lively style and is a good scholarly synthesis of the post-Second World War evolution of Soviet-East European relations ending in the revolutionary events of 1989." Canadian Journal of Political Science ..". a lively and perceptive account... " Military Review "Clearly and simply written, this book is particularly useful as a compact introduction to the prehistory and transformation of East European politics." Choice "It is well organized, readable, and sensitive to complexity; find the time to read it." History"
Author : Patryk Babiracki,Kenyon Zimmer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623490300
Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach—personal, technological, and cultural—on the population and politics of the Soviet bloc. Several authors analyze lesser-known complications of East-West exchange; others show the contradictory nature of Moscow’s efforts to consolidate its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and in the Third World. An outgrowth of the forty-sixth annual Walter Prescott Webb Lectures, hosted in 2011 by the University of Texas at Arlington, Cold War Crossings features diverse focuses with a unifying theme.
Author : Matthew Broad,Suvi Kansikas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030454456
Europe is a continent whose history has, in one form or another, long been dominated by integration. And yet the European integration process is often treated as synonymous with the evolution of just one particular, and until recently geographically quite limited, Western-centred organisation: the European Union (EU). This trend obscures the multitude of ways European states have acted collectively on both sides of the Iron Curtain – and continue to do so throughout the continent today. With contributors drawn from history and political science, this book explores some of these diverse integration efforts ‘beyond Brussels’. We shine a light on international organisations, trade frameworks, and various political, social, scientific and cultural forms of unity in both Eastern and Western Europe. In so doing, the book seeks to redefine the history of the European integration process not only as a less purely EU-centric phenomenon but as a less strictly Western European one too.
Author : Randall W. Stone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691225135
Why did the Soviet Union squander the political leverage afforded by its trade subsidy to Eastern Europe? Why did Soviet officials fail to bargain with resolve, to link subsidies to salient political issues, to make credible commitments, and to monitor the satellites' policies? Using an unprecedented array of formerly secret documents housed in archives in Moscow, Warsaw, and Prague, as well as interviews with former Communist officials across Eastern Europe, Randall Stone answers these questions and others that have long vexed Western political scientists. Stone argues that trade politics revolved around the incentives created by distorted prices. The East European satellites profited by trading on the margin between prices on the Western market and those in the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union made numerous attempts to reduce its implicit trade subsidy and increase the efficiency of the bloc, but the satellites managed consistently to outmaneuver Soviet negotiators. Stone demonstrates how the East Europeans artfully resisted Soviet objectives. Stone draws upon recent developments in bargaining and principal-agent theory, arguing that the incentives created by domestic institutions weakened Soviet bargaining strategies. In effect, he suggests, perverse incentive structures in the Soviet economy were exported into Soviet foreign policy. Furthermore, Stone argues, incentives to smother information were so deeply entrenched that they frustrated numerous attempts to reform Soviet institutions.