Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310559

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 0367286459

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Russia and Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Geraldine Fagan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415490023

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Believing in Russia by Geraldine Fagan Pdf

As unease mounts over Russia's direction under Presidents Putin and Medvedev, how free are her faith communities? Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with religious and state representatives across Russia, this book explores religious policy as both a gauge of Kremlin commitment to democratic values and a reflection of national identity.

Author : Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054172

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Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe by Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin Pdf

This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after communism's demise and elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities. Eleven essays by a distinguished group of scholars assess whether post-communist developments in specific areas continue to be shaped by the experience of communism or, alternatively, by fundamental divergences produced before or after communism. Chapters deal with the variable impact of the communist experience on post-communist societies in such areas as regime trajectories and democratic political values; patterns of regional and sectoral economic development; property ownership within the energy sector; the functioning of the executive branch of government, the police, and courts; the relationship of religion to the state; government language policies; and informal relationships and practices.

Author : Rick Fawn,Stephen White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135290856

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Russia After Communism by Rick Fawn,Stephen White Pdf

Russia's transition from communism holds great significance not only for itself but also for the wider world. This collection of essays examines the spectrum of Russia's transition since 1991 - considering not only the pattern of events but also what the changes have meant for Russians themselves.

Author : Victoria E. Bonnell
Publisher : Center for Slavic and East European Studies University of Li
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017792784

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Identities in Transition by Victoria E. Bonnell Pdf

Author : Iván Szelényi,Péter Mihályi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004413191

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Varieties of Post-communist Capitalism by Iván Szelényi,Péter Mihályi Pdf

This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. Our main question is to what extent the present system in Russia, the model of President Putin is a generic model for all post-communist capitalisms.

Author : Peter Gross,Karol Jakubowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739174944

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Media Transformations in the Post-communist World by Peter Gross,Karol Jakubowicz Pdf

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This in-depth exploration shows how despite positive changes after the fall of Communism, the transformations of societal institutions, including the mass media, have turned out to be slow, uncertain, and unsatisfying to many when measured against the admittedly ambiguous and overly Panglossian expectations. This collection offers readers a different view of post-Communist media by examining the mass media's evolution in the region from a more holistic perspective. The contributors to this volume respond to essential questions, including: Is the post-Communist transition and transformation over? When can it be considered over? Each chapter contributes to our understanding of these questions by offering theoretical overviews and country-specific studies. This collection serves as an affirmation that the study of mass media is essential to understanding the nature and workings of democracy in the long-suffering nations of Central and Eastern Europe, with international applications. Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World is an indispensable contribution to the study of Eastern Europe after Communism, and the transformations of mass media in the region.

Author : Peter Boone,Stanislaw Gomulka,Richard Layard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262024470

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Emerging from Communism by Peter Boone,Stanislaw Gomulka,Richard Layard Pdf

This text addresses issues concerned with the fall of, or decline in, communism in Eastern Europe and China, comparing the different countries' performance in inflation, privatization, enterprise restructuring, banking reform and labour market policy, and the role of decentralization.

Author : Piotr Dutkiewicz,Sakwa Richard,Kulikov Vladimir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317328452

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The Social History of Post-Communist Russia by Piotr Dutkiewicz,Sakwa Richard,Kulikov Vladimir Pdf

This book tells the untold story of how ordinary Russian people experienced and coped with Russia’s transformations after the end of communism. Unlike most studies of the subject which focus on high politics, developments in the elite and events at the centre, this book, which includes findings from interviews, memoirs, public opinion surveys and press articles and documents from the regions, portrays a multi-ethnic, multi-confessional society with different groups affected by the deep and varied changes in diverse and different ways. The book covers economic developments, social changes, how official policies played out at the grass-roots level, the psychological impact of the changes and the impact on public opinion, and how different regions were affected differently. Overall, the book reveals the hidden dynamics of Russian society, including its formal and informal mechanisms and rules for relating to the state and other citizens, and shows how millions of Russians coped, despite all the odds, and maintained the integrity and stability of the country.

Author : Barbara Nunberg
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821342053

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The State After Communism by Barbara Nunberg Pdf

As the European Union (EU) launches its common currency (the Euro), Central European (CE) nations are searching for best practices in public liability management in order to smooth their integration into the EU. This work addresses that concern, examining borrowing policies, institution building, portfolio optimization, and the implications of the Euro and EU accession for public debt management. To help the CE countries achieve their goals, the World Bank and the European Commission held a two-day seminar in Brussels in mid-December 1997. European Union Accession presents the papers delivered at that seminar which was attended by all ten EU applicant countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. The workshop pursued the following goals: (1) to investigate the implications of the launch of the Euro and of the EU accession on fiscal prudence and on the borrowing strategies of CE countries; (2) to facilitate the dissemination of the best public liabilities management techniques developed worldwide; and (3) to explore plausible arrangements to promote prudent public liabilities management in Central Europe through a regional expertise network.

Author : Alexander Wöll,Harald Wydra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134089079

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Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe by Alexander Wöll,Harald Wydra Pdf

In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is not only an institutional arrangement but also a civilisational project, this book argues that mythical narratives help understanding the emergence of democracy without ‘democrats’. Examining different national traditions as well as pre-communist and communist narratives, myths are seen as politically fabricated ‘programmes of truth’ that form and sustain the political imagination. Appearing as cultural, literary, or historical resources, myths amount to ideology in narrative form, which actors use in political struggles for the sake of achieving social compliance and loyalty with the authority of new political forms. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, this book argues that narratives about the past are not simply ‘legacies’ of former regimes but have actively shaped representations and meanings of democracy in the region. Taking different theoretical and methodological approaches, the power of myth is explored for issues such as leadership, collective identity-formation, literary representation of heroic figures, cultural symbolism in performative art as well as on the constitution of legitimacy and civic identity in post-communist democracies.

Author : James F. Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0822314649

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Hopes and Shadows by James F. Brown Pdf

After the exuberance that marked the revolutions of 1989, the countries of Eastern Europe have faced the breathtakingly ambitious task of remaking their societies. Simultaneously they have sought to build liberal democracies based on market economics, while confronting reassertions of claims for national independence long suppressed. Taking up where his previous book Surge to Freedom ended, J. F. Brown's Hopes and Shadows analyzes the results of the first four years of Eastern Europe's separation from communist rule and the prospects for the future. The forces at work in the midst of this revolution are examined from a perspective that is necessarily both historical and contemporary as the complex relationship between the tasks that face these countries and the legacy of their communist and pre-communist past shape the difficult present. As the usefulness of the designation "Eastern Europe" is itself questioned, Brown provides both regional and country-by-country analysis of the political situation. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland are grouped together, as are Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania, to address questions such as the development of liberal democratic culture, the activation of democratic institutions and procedures, and the future of former communist bureaucracies. He considers the former Yugoslavia-now torn violently apart-largely as a separate case. The theoretical, political, social, financial, cultural, and psychological dimensions of the transition from socialism to a market economy are discussed in detail. The final aspect of this revolution, the failure of which most immediately threatens the entire process, is the attempt to build new and stable national statehoods. Brown explores the history and impact of the current reemergence of nationalism and the dangers it represents. A comprehensive and authoritative survey, J. F. Brown's analysis and presentation of the contemporary Eastern European political landscape will be essential reading for scholars and specialists and of great interest to general readers.

Author : Petre Petrov,Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317647485

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The Vernaculars of Communism by Petre Petrov,Lara Ryazanova-Clarke Pdf

The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did language practices that designated, articulated and performed these phenomena. This book examines the use of communist language in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods. It goes beyond characterising this linguistic variety as crude "newspeak", showing how official language was much more complex – the medium through which important political-ideological messages were elaborated, transmitted and also contested, revealing contradictions, discursive cleavages and performative variations. The book examines the subject comparatively across a range of East European countries besides the Soviet Union, and draws on perspectives from a range of scholarly disciplines – sociolinguistics, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, historiography, and translation studies. Petre Petrov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Head of Russian and Academic Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Centre in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

Author : Jerome Aumente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015042980667

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Eastern European Journalism by Jerome Aumente Pdf

This text covers five topics about journalism: its roots in East/Central Europe and former Soviet Union; its role and effect leading up to the events of 1989; the transition period; the contributions, trials and tribulations from 1989-1996; and the state of journalism education in these regions.