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Postcommunism from Within

Jan Kubik,Amy Linch

Author : Jan Kubik,Amy Linch
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814708347

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Postcommunism from Within by Jan Kubik,Amy Linch Pdf

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.

Staging Postcommunism

Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole

Author : Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole
Publisher : Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609386771

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Staging Postcommunism by Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole Pdf

This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.

Social Theory and Postcommunism

William Outhwaite,Larry Ray

Author : William Outhwaite,Larry Ray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405137843

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Social Theory and Postcommunism by William Outhwaite,Larry Ray Pdf

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

Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy

Richard D. Anderson Jr.,M. Steven Fish,Stephen E. Hanson,Philip G. Roeder

Author : Richard D. Anderson Jr.,M. Steven Fish,Stephen E. Hanson,Philip G. Roeder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691230948

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Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy by Richard D. Anderson Jr.,M. Steven Fish,Stephen E. Hanson,Philip G. Roeder Pdf

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.

Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture

Lars Kristensen

Author : Lars Kristensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136475559

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Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture by Lars Kristensen Pdf

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.

Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe

Dorota Kołodziejczyk,Cristina Şandru

Author : Dorota Kołodziejczyk,Cristina Şandru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317286004

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Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe by Dorota Kołodziejczyk,Cristina Şandru Pdf

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.

Writing Postcommunism

D. Williams

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137330086

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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.

The Ethics of Postcommunism

S. Prozorov

Author : S. Prozorov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230239555

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The Ethics of Postcommunism by S. Prozorov Pdf

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.

Postcommunism

Richard Sakwa

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002810852

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Postcommunism by Richard Sakwa Pdf

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.

Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World

Valerie Bunce,Michael McFaul,Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Author : Valerie Bunce,Michael McFaul,Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139483865

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Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World by Valerie Bunce,Michael McFaul,Kathryn Stoner-Weiss Pdf

Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World examines three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations. It draws important conclusions about the rise, development, and breakdown of both democracy and dictatorship in each country, providing a comparative perspective on the post-Communist world. The first democratic wave to sweep this region encompasses the rapid rise of democratic regimes from 1989 to 1992 from the ashes of Communism and Communist states. The second wave arose with accession to the European Union (from 2004 to 2007) and the third, with the electoral defeat of dictators (1996 to 2005) in Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. The authors of each chapter in this volume examine both internal and external dimensions of both democratic success and failure.

The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes

Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics

Author : Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 51,9 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.

Out of the Red

Mitchell Alexander Orenstein

Author : Mitchell Alexander Orenstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 047206746X

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Out of the Red by Mitchell Alexander Orenstein Pdf

A comprehensive parallel study of two critical East-Central European transition economies

Genders 22

Ellen E. Berry

Author : Ellen E. Berry
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814786130

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Genders 22 by Ellen E. Berry Pdf

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 ]

The Challenge of Military Reform in Postcommunist Europe

A. Forster,T. Edmunds,Andrew Cottey

Author : A. Forster,T. Edmunds,Andrew Cottey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403914293

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The Challenge of Military Reform in Postcommunist Europe by A. Forster,T. Edmunds,Andrew Cottey Pdf

This major comparative study examines the challenges faced by countries of postcommunist Europe in reforming and professionalizing their armed forces. It explores how the interaction of the common challenges of postcommunism and the diverse circumstances of individual countries are shaping professionalization processes in this changing region. The detailed country case studies in this volume, written by leading experts to a common analytical framework, compare the experiences of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, FRY, Russia and Ukraine.