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Author : Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole
Publisher : Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609386771
This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.
Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0876091869
This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the 1990s: post-communist Eurasia.
Author : Vitaly Chernetsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773576506
In Mapping Postcommunist Cultures Chernetsky argues that Russia and Ukraine exemplify the principal paradigms of post-Soviet cultural development. In Russia this has manifested itself in the subversive dismantling of the totalitarian linguistic regime and the foregrounding of previously marginalized subject positions. In Ukraine, work in these areas shows how the traumas of centuries of colonial oppression are being overcome through the carnivalesque decrowning of ideological dogmas and an affirmation of a new type of community, most recently demonstrated in the peaceful Orange Revolution of 2004. Mapping Postcommunist Cultures also critiques the neglect of the former communist world in current models of cultural globalization.
Author : Lars Kristensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136475559
A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally in the production of post-communist film. It argues post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level, unlimited by national state borders, and examines post-communist cross culturalism and global totalitarianism within film. The book examines different national cinemas and dissimilar cinematic modes - from Russian blockbuster cinema to Chinese independent cinema; from Serbian city films to revolutionary films of Mozambique - all formulated as within the postcommunist condition. It considers the postcommunist film in terms of transnational and World cinema. It covers a wide range of films from small and independent filmmaking to mainstream, popular cinema, and explains post-communist signifiers as manifested in visual culture both inside and outside former, and current, communist countries.
Author : Gerald A. McDermott
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472068032
DIVAn empirical analysis of changing industrial processes in the postcommunist Czech Republic /div
Author : Richard D. Anderson Jr.,M. Steven Fish,Stephen E. Hanson,Philip G. Roeder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691230948
Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard Anderson, Steven Fish, Stephen Hanson, and Philip Roeder not only apply theory to practice, but using a wealth of empirical evidence, draw together the elements of existing theory into new syntheses. The authors each highlight a development in postcommunist societies that reveals an anomaly or lacuna in existing theory. They explain why authoritarian leaders abandon authoritarianism, why democratization sometimes reverses course, how subjects become citizens by beginning to take sides in politics, how rulers become politicians by beginning to seek popular support, and not least, how democracy becomes consolidated. Rather than converging on a single approach, each author shows how either a rationalist, institutionalist, discursive, or Weberian approach sheds light on this transformation. They conclude that the experience of postcommunist democracy demands a rethinking of existing theory. To that end, they offer rich new insights to scholars, advanced students, policymakers, and anyone interested in postcommunist states or in comparative democratization.
Author : Leslie Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Communism
ISBN : 0822319950
Comprehensive, comparative, and up to date, this book will be essential reading for lecturers and students of politics, and the general reader.
Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137330086
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Author : S. Prozorov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230239555
Prozorov offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Agamben's philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history, that challenges the Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated.
Author : Dorota Ko?odziejczyk,Cristina ?andru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317285991
A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from the vantage point of a post-Cold War, globalised, world, there is a need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and influence. This book proposes new critical perspectives on several themes and concepts that have emerged within, or been propagated by, postcolonial studies. These themes include structures of exclusion/ inclusion; formations of nationalism, structures of othering, and representations of difference; forms and historical realisations of anti-colonial/anti-imperial struggle; the experience of trauma (involving issues of collective memory/amnesia and the re-writing of history); resistance as a complex of cultural practices; and concepts such as alterity, ambivalence, self-colonisation, dislocation, hegemonic discourse, minority, and subaltern cultures.? Taken together, this volume suggests that some of the methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism can be fruitfully applied to the study of postcommunist cultures and, conversely, that the experience of the Soviet brand of imperialist rule in the form of communism in East-Central Europe can function as an ideological moderator in Third-World oriented, Marxist-inspired, postcolonial discourses. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Author : Ellen E. Berry
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780814712481
The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change. This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in post-communist Hungary; patriotism and gender in Poland; sexual dissidence in Eastern Europe; and women in the former Yugoslavia. >[ go to the Genders website ]
Author : William Outhwaite,Larry Ray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137843
Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough studyof the implications of post-communism for sociological theory.Written by two leading social theorists, the book discusses thethesis that the fall of communism has decimated alternativeconceptions of social organizations other than capitalism. Analyzes the implications of the fall of communism on socialtheory Discusses alternative ideas of social organizations other thancapitalism, in the wake of the collapse of communism Covers state/civil society, globalization, the future of“modernity,” and post-socialism
Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137330086
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002810852
Postcommunism has joined the list of terms like postmodernity and postcolonialism that defines the spirit of our age. Designed for undergraduate courses and an essential reference for those more familiar with the field, this authoritative text examines the validity and ramifications of the concept and places it in the broader context of global change.
Author : Jan Kubik,Amy Linch
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814708347
While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism led to enormously complex political, economic, social, and cultural transformations, and while political liberalization was a lofty goal, it was neither uniform in its effects nor unqualified in its benefits. Postcommunism from Within foregrounds the diversity of the historical experiences and current realities of people in the postcommunist region in examining how they are responding to these monumental changes at home. The original essays in this volume lay out a bold new approach to research on the postcommunist region, and to democratization studies more broadly, that focuses on the social and cultural microprocesses behind political and economic transformation. Thematic essays by eminent scholars of postcommunism from across the social sciences are supported by case studies to demonstrate the limitations of current democratization paradigms and suggest ways of building categories of research that more closely capture the role of vernacular knowledge in demanding, creating, and adapting to institutional change. A novel approach to understanding one of the greatest political and social transformations in recent history, Postcommunism from Within explores not just how citizens respond to political and economic restructuring engineered at the top but also how people enact their own visions of life, politics, and justice by responding to daily challenges.
