The Literature Of Post Communist Slovenia Slovakia Hungary And Romania

Author : Robert Murray Davis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074083430

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The Literature of Post-Communist Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania by Robert Murray Davis Pdf

"This book examines the economic, social, and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. The end of the communist regime has made the position of writer less lucrative and prestigious within these four countries. The countries' respective publishing markets are struggling to adjust to a new economy"--Provided by publisher."This book examines the economic, social, and literary effect of the end of communist domination and accompanying cultural subsidies in Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. The end of the communist regime has made the position of writer less lucrative and prestigious within these four countries. The countries' respective publishing markets are struggling to adjust to a new economy"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Richard Rose,William Mishler,Christian Haerpfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0745619274

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Democracy and Its Alternatives by Richard Rose,William Mishler,Christian Haerpfer Pdf

Democracy and its Alternatives analyses a particular source of evidence about public opinion, the New Democracies Barometer, covering the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus and Ukraine.

Author : Dermot Gilvary,Darren J. N. Middleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441171955

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Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene by Dermot Gilvary,Darren J. N. Middleton Pdf

Informative, broad-ranging, this title sheds new light on the life and literary art of one of the last century's most celebrated authors. The first volume to be authorized by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, "Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene" brings together writers, journalists and scholars to investigate as well as to assess Greene's prolific oeuvre and intense personal interests. Here the reader may explore everything from Greene's Vienna at the time of the filming of "The Third Man" to his sometimes fraught relationship with Evelyn Waugh, from Greene's unconventional fictional treatment of women to his "believing skepticism". While Greene often informed friends that "a ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system", critics of his literary art have found it extraordinarily difficult to define the content of this "ruling passion". Perhaps this is because Greene's own character seems so paradoxical, ironic even. Moreover, in believing that sin contains within itself the seeds of saintliness, he consistently loiters on what Robert Browning calls "the dangerous edge of things". In exploring this "dangerous edge", this book covers the full breadth of Greene's life and literary career.

Author : Sorin Antohi,Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633860038

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Between Past and Future by Sorin Antohi,Vladimir Tismaneanu Pdf

The tenth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe is the basis for this text which reflects upon the past ten years and what lies ahead for the future. An international group of academics and public intellectuals, including former dissidents and active politicians, engage in an exchange on the antecedents, causes, contexts, meanings and legacies of the 1989 revolutions. The contributors address various issues including liberal democracy and its enemies; modernity and discontent; economic reforms and their social impact; ethnicity; nationalism and religion; geopolitics; electoral systems and political power; European integration; and the demise of Yugoslavia.

Author : Robert Murray Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820336466

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Mid-Lands by Robert Murray Davis Pdf

A memoir and social history of small-town America in the early 1950s recalls the conflicting values that shaped the author's education but reveals how his progressive thinking family fostered his love for fiction and his desire to be unique.

Author : Anna H. Perrault Ph.D.,Elizabeth S. Aversa,Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth,Cynthia J. Miller,Cynthia F. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693271

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Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts by Anna H. Perrault Ph.D.,Elizabeth S. Aversa,Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth,Cynthia J. Miller,Cynthia F. Miller Pdf

This familiar guide to information resources in the humanities and the arts, organized by subjects and emphasizing electronic resources, enables librarians, teachers, and students to quickly find the best resources for their diverse needs. Authoritative, trusted, and timely, Information Resources in the Humanities and the Arts: Sixth Edition introduces new librarians to the breadth of humanities collections, experienced librarians to the nature of humanities scholarship, and the scholars themselves to a wealth of information they might otherwise have missed. This new version of a classic resource—the first update in over a decade—has been refreshed to account for the myriad of digital resources that have rewritten the rules of the reference and research world, and been expanded to include significantly increased coverage of world literature and languages. This book is invaluable for a wide variety of users: librarians in academic, public, school, and special library settings; researchers in religion, philosophy, literature, and the performing and visual arts; graduate students in library and information science; and teachers and students in humanities, the arts, and interdisciplinary degree programs.

Author : Günther Heydemann,Karel Vodička
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785333187

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From Eastern Bloc to European Union by Günther Heydemann,Karel Vodička Pdf

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 : Rusko Matuli?
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493190782

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Bibliography of Sources on the Region of Former Yugoslavia Volume III by Rusko Matuli? Pdf

Author : Oto Luthar
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633861516

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Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits by Oto Luthar Pdf

The collection of well-researched essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism and Communism. This provides opportunities to exonerate wartime collaboration, casting the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany. While the Jewish Holocaust is acknowledged, its meaning and significance are obfuscated. In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of ?Europeanness?. Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The juxtaposition of these politics, the processes in other parts of Europe, the modes of remembering shaped by displacement and the transnational enable a close encounter with the divergences and assess the potential of the formation of common, European memory practices. ÿ

Author : Péter Bajomi-Lázár
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789633860427

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Party Colonisation of the Media in Central and Eastern Europe by Péter Bajomi-Lázár Pdf

This book compares media and political systems in East-Central as well as in Western Europe in order to identify the reasons possibly responsible for the extensive and intensive party control over the media. This phenomenon is widely experienced in many of the former communist countries since the political transformation. The author argues that differences in media freedom and in the politicization of the news media are rooted in differences in party structures between old and new democracies, and, notably, the fact that young parties in the new members of the European Union are short of resources, which makes them more likely to take control of and to exploit media resources.

Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134485567

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Democracy and Post-Communism by Graeme Gill Pdf

The collapse of communism was widely heralded as the dawn of democracy across the former Soviet region. However, the political outcome has been much less uniform. The post-communist states have developed political systems from democracy to dictatorship. Using examples and empirical data collected from twenty-six former Soviet states, Graeme Gill provides a detailed comparative analysis of the core issues of regime change, the creation of civil society, economic reform and the changing nature of post-communism. Within these individual cases, it becomes clear that political outcomes have not been arbitrary, but directly reflect the circumstances surrounding the birth of independence. Students of Comparative Politics, International Relations and Russian and Post-Soviet Studies should find this book essential reading.

Author : Dinissa Duvanova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107030169

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Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia by Dinissa Duvanova Pdf

Prior to 1989, the communist countries of Eastern Europe and the USSR lacked genuine employer and industry associations. After the collapse of communism, industry associations mushroomed throughout the region. Duvanova argues that abusive regulatory regimes discourage the formation of business associations and poor regulatory enforcement tends to encourage associational membership growth. Academic research often treats special interest groups as vehicles of protectionism and non-productive collusion. This book challenges this perspective with evidence of market-friendly activities by industry associations and their benign influence on patterns of public governance. Careful analysis of cross-national quantitative data spanning more than 25 countries, and qualitative examination of business associations in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Croatia, shows that postcommunist business associations function as substitutes for state and private mechanisms of economic governance. These arguments and empirical findings put the long-standing issues of economic regulations, public goods and collective action in a new theoretical perspective.

Author : Károly Attila Soós
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789639776913

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Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition by Károly Attila Soós Pdf

Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the processes of privatisation and the political transition from communism to a new system.The analysis is restricted to the privatisation in those fields where its methods have been strongly different from privatisations in advanced market economies and where differences of privatisation principles and techniques among our six countries were also rather various. This is basically the privatisation of middle-sized and large enterprises, not including banks, non-bank financial companies, natural monopolies and agricultural entities.

Author : Lavinia Stan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135970994

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Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union by Lavinia Stan Pdf

This book examines transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, exploring their attempts to come to terms with the gross human abuses which characterized their communist past. It considers transitional justice in all its aspects, explaining why different countries adopted different models and how successful they have been.

Author : Hans Keman,Ferdinand Muller-Rommel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136279041

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Party Government in the New Europe by Hans Keman,Ferdinand Muller-Rommel Pdf

This truly comparative volume examines the "life cycle" of party governments in Europe from 1990 onwards, and analyses its role and function in contemporary European parliamentary democracies. The life and the performance of party governments in Europe became more and more volatile and publicly contested. In some cases, it has even challenge the democratic quality of the state. This book presents comparative analyses of party governments from formation and duration, to performance. It brings together some of the foremost scholars researching on party government to evaluate existing theories and compare both the developments in the Western and the ‘new’ Eastern Europe in an empirically-grounded comparative analysis. The book discusses the interaction between various institutions, political parties and policies, and evaluates how institutional change and party behaviour can drive the "life cycle" of party government. Party Government in the New Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of Comparative Politics, Democracy, Government and European Politics.