Post Communist Transformations In Baltic Countries

Author : Zenonas Norkus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031394966

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Post-Communist Transformations in Baltic Countries by Zenonas Norkus Pdf

This Open access book provides a survey of the economic, health, and somatic progress of Baltic countries during the period 1918–2018, framed by the outline of the historical-sociological theory of modern social restorations, as originally conceived by the Austrian-American comparative historian Robert A. Kann. The author reworks Kann's theory to analyse post-communist transformations in the Baltic region. The book argues that the purpose of modern social restorations is to make restoration societies safe against a recurrence of revolution. There were two waves of modern social restorations: post-Napoleonic and post-communist. Most post-Napoleonic restorations were brief, because they failed to economically and socially outperform the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary systems. It considers Baltic restorations as laboratory cases of second-wave modern social restorations, because they encompass a triple restoration of the nation-state, capitalism, and democracy. The book assesses the performance success of Baltic restorations by comparing economic and social progress of Baltic countries during the periods of original independence (1918–1940), foreign-imposed state socialism (1940–1990), and restored independence (since 1990). It then elaborates the criteria to assess the ultimate performance success of these restorations by 2040, when restored Baltic states may endure longer than their ancestors in 1918–1940 and the complete foreign occupations era (1940–1990). The author, an expert in historical sociology, uses extensive historical-statistical data in cross-time comparisons to develop his analysis and create future projections. This book is of wide interest to sociologists, social demographers, political scientists, and economists studying the Baltic region. This is an open access book.

Author : Zenonas Norkus
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155053504

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On Baltic Slovenia and Adriatic Lithuania by Zenonas Norkus Pdf

The book provides an innovatory internationally comparative causal analysis of the variation in political and economic outcomes of post-communist transformations after the first decade, using multi-value qualitative comparative analysis and TOSMANA software. This analysis includes a critical revision of received dichotomies (e.g. on gradualism versus "shock therapy") about post-communist transformation, a discussion of the counterfactual scripts of post-communist transformation, and contributes to current debates on the varieties of post-communist capitalism. This conceptual framework is applied in case studies of the transformation in the Baltic States, with special consideration given to the possibility of alternatives to the Lithuanian way and the challenges of populism in this country's politics. Book jacket.

Author : Andrew Savchenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351789561

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Rationality, Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformations by Andrew Savchenko Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states with particular emphasis on cross-national variations in speed and direction of post-Communist economic reforms. While many studies tend to concentrate on the economic aspects of market reforms, analysis of the broader institutional framework is less common. This book, therefore, focuses on the influence of historical and cultural conditions on the formation of economic policy. The findings presented indicate that, far from being a purely rational process driven exclusively by considerations of economical efficiency, post-Communist market transformation is influenced by socio-political and cultural factors which are able to account for cross-national variations in speed and direction of reforms.

Author : W. Kostecki,K. Zukrowska,B. Goralczyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230511309

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Transformations of Post-Communist States by W. Kostecki,K. Zukrowska,B. Goralczyk Pdf

Post-communist transformation differs from any previous experience of societies in transition by its scope, speed, international framework and complicity. It contains elements of democratization, marketization, nation building, and the creation of a new international environment in the framework of globalization. The contributors give an 'internal' perspective of these highly complicated processes in a comparative form and using a multidisciplinary approach.

Author : Mark Almond,Christine Stone
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1326728652

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POST-COMMUNIST BALTIC STATES by Mark Almond,Christine Stone Pdf

The Post-Communist Baltic States get a good press in the Western media. Their politicians are often quoted on issues ranging from Brexit to Putin. Their capital cities are post-Communisms Potemkin villages. But what has been the fate of ordinary people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since their Singing Revolutions in 1991? Regular visitors to the Baltic States since 1993, the authors expose the perverse realities of three small nations promoted as post-Communist models. Propaganda about the benefits of EU and NATO membership cannot mask that the Baltic States are in the grip of corrupt political elites and facing depopulation due to the catastrophic social impact of their successful transition to the market economy. Officially-sponsored nationalism and nostalgia for Nazi collaboration cannot disguise environmental degradation and mass emigration threatening their national existence. Escaping Kremlin rule has reduced the Baltic States to the status of front-line pawns in a New Cold War.

Author : Raimo Blom,Harri Melin,Jouko Nikula
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110819397

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Between Plan and Market by Raimo Blom,Harri Melin,Jouko Nikula Pdf

While the Baltic states continue to develop into free market economies, these nation's new legal and political institutions are still in a process of formation. Political organization is in a state of flux, labor relations and labor markets are practically nonexistent. These unusual conditions of change present challenging problems to the sociologist. Unique in approach, this book emphasizes techniques for merging systemic, social and communal levels of analysis, providing a coherent view in a difficult area of research. It is argued that cyclical, rather than linear concepts of change, are the more fruitful in evaluating mechanisms of social transformation.

Author : David Riedmiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3640062302

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What accounts for the relative success of post-communist transformation in the Baltic countries? by David Riedmiller Pdf

Author : The late Ole Nørgaard
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782543449

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The Baltic States After Independence by The late Ole Nørgaard Pdf

'The Baltic States After Independence is an excellent and informative account of how the Baltic republics have failed. . . . This excellent book is indispensable for any scholar studying the former Soviet Union. Although this book will be a definitive reference for transition scholars, it deserves a wider audience. I would encourage every economics major to read it, or at least parts of it. Too often the economics curriculum, tainted by orthodoxy, ignores the interdependence of economics, politics, and international relations. The authors superbly demonstrate that markets do not develop independently and ahistorically, rather their development is path dependent and guided by a qualified and efficient state apparatus. I can think of no better book that disparages neoclassical orthodoxy almost to the point of irrelevancy, while at the same time vindicating the central tenets of institutionalism.' - Jack Reardon, Journal of Economic Issues Acclaim for the first edition: 'The book is of great help in understanding the Baltic states, in particular the survival of what has been referred to as the civil society and the (re)-establishment of democracy.' - Ulf Hansson, Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity The second edition of this widely acclaimed book considers the extent to which the Baltic states have succeeded politically and economically in their aspirations to emulate Western institutions since independence. The book has been completely revised since the first edition to account for the rapid changes in the countries themselves, and in the theories that attempt to generalize the patterns of development in post-communist countries.

Author : Marju Lauristin,Peeter Vihalemm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : UOM:39015048565975

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Return to the Western World by Marju Lauristin,Peeter Vihalemm Pdf

Author : Gundar J. King,David E. McNabb
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781482250718

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Nation-Building in the Baltic States by Gundar J. King,David E. McNabb Pdf

The product of more than twenty years of research, first-person observations, discussions, and policy analyses, Nation-Building in the Baltic States: Transforming Governance, Social Welfare, and Security in Northern Europe explores the characteristics of the Baltic states as positioned in the northeast corridor in terms of military strife and polity development such as democratization. It details governments' efforts to abet transparency and trust by way of developing new public and private institutions for advancements like innovation and private wealth creation. The book examines the effects of various factors of economic and social adjustments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The authors explore the opportunities and problems that have shaped the region’s progress in the process of rebuilding democratic institutions and nation states after regaining their independence. They then describe the region’s progress in laying the critical internal foundation necessary for maintaining their political independence. The book also reviews the progress made in strengthening what the authors believe are key social functions of government in what the EU describes as its social market system: the provision of social welfare services that meets the needs of all. The book concludes with a realistic picture of future hurdles for this region, looking at lingering challenges and regional instabilities, policy mistakes not to be made again, and recommendations for national planning and resource management. Going beyond a massive, single explanation of recent Baltic developments, the book provides a broad picture of development of social and political trends and insights with separate evaluations of issues in the process of national transformation. It provides a foundation examining the forces that will shape the future of the Baltic states.

Author : Zenonas Norkus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004683327

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The Great Restoration: Post-Communist Transformations from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Restorations by Zenonas Norkus Pdf

‘The revolutions of 1989’ remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-communist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a completely new perspective, theorising them as the next wave of modern social restorations, starting with the post-Napoleonic restorations in 1815. A comparison of the 1789 French and 1917 Russian revolutions was seminal for the rise of comparative historical and sociological research on modern revolutions. The book extends and supplements the sociology of modern revolutions by the first systematic outline of the sociology of modern social restorations grounded in a comparison of post-Napoleonic and post-communist restorations.

Author : Alfio Cerami,Pieter Vanhuysse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230245808

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Post-Communist Welfare Pathways by Alfio Cerami,Pieter Vanhuysse Pdf

This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path departure, and elite strategies.

Author : Alexandr Akimov,Gennadi Kazakevitch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811503177

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30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Alexandr Akimov,Gennadi Kazakevitch Pdf

The year 2019 marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin wall. This symbolic event led to German unification and the collapse of communist party rule in countries of the Soviet-led Eastern bloc. Since then, the post-communist countries of Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe have tied their post-communist transition to deep integration into the West, including EU accession. Most of the states in Central and Eastern Europe have been able to relatively successfully transform their previous communist political and economic systems. In contrast, the non-Baltic post-Soviet states have generally been less successful in doing so. This book, with an internationally respected list of contributors, seeks to address and compare those diverse developments in communist and post-communist countries and their relationship with the West from various angles. The book has three parts. The first part addresses the progress of post-communist transition in comparative terms, including regional focus on Eastern and South Eastern Europe, CIS and Central Asia. The second focuses on Russia and its foreign relationship, and internal politics. The third explores in detail economies and societies in Central Asia. The final part of the book draws some historical comparisons of recent issues in post-communism with the past experiences.

Author : Christian Vogel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9783638770231

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Post-Communist Transition - Theory in Political Transition by Christian Vogel Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 1,0, University of Tartu (Center of Baltic Studies), course: Post-communist transition and Estonian experience, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction "Die EU braucht eine Pause zur Besinnung, zur Selbstfindung, zur Konsolidierung." By proclaiming that the European Union (EU) needs a break for reflection and consolidation, Egon Bahr, who has been an intimate and consultant of the former German chancellor Willy Brandt as well as one of the most important German politicians as far as foreign policy is concerned, is pointing at a major problem of the before said institution. Since the EU enlargement of 10 new states has taken place at the 1st of May 2004, the problem which has been addressed before is even more up to date. Especially the recent argumentation about a common constitution, which is overdue to both providing a proper legal capacity as well as a capability to act, has been proofing that the EU is still far away from a strong, functioning political union. But how is it possible to create such a proper union consisting of 25 members, and most probably 27 by the year 2007, consisting of basically national states being still heavily occupied with dealing with their own backgrounds especially if one has a closer look the former communist states? Is there any strategy of the lowest common denominator of policy advice or do one have to identify the (communist) past in relation to present developments ? Facing this problem, the main purpose of this analysis will be an evaluation of different political transition theories and rating strategies which have been particularly taken into account by the former states behind the iron curtain. Finally this work is aiming at a probably existing connection between a successful political transition and a deeper integration into the European Union. For that reason the fir

Author : R. Kilis,J. Vahlne,N. Hood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349253944

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Transition in the Baltic States by R. Kilis,J. Vahlne,N. Hood Pdf

Much has been written about the speed and complexity of the transition throughout Central and Eastern Europe and former parts of the Soviet Union. The focus has invariably been on the macro scale and often from the perspective of a single discipline. This book differs from others by concentrating on the micro level of change and doing so from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, recognising that transformation processes are multiplex and require the linkages between the social, political, psychological, cultural and economic dimensions to be fully exposed and addressed.