Eastern Europe Since 1970: Introduction: Understanding the Context of Change
Author | : Bülent Gökay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781557987730 |
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Author | : Bülent Gökay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781557987730 |
Author | : Bulent Gokay |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317881338 |
From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 spelt the end of reformist communism and the tightening of Soviet control throughout Eastern Europe. In spite of this, several countries within the Soviet Bloc managed to retain varying degrees of independence over the next two decades. Focusing on the struggle towards economic and social modernisation in the region and the competing influences of East and West in a dangerous Cold War. Bulent Gokay shows how individual circumstances and diverse national characteristics made a uniform application of the Soviet model impossible, and charts the growing resistance to domination and the momentous events which finally toppled Soviet power in the region.
Author | : John M. Howell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Drawing on case studies, this book examines the opportunities for trade and investment; the true impact of the collapse of communism; the failure of the West to provide an alternative; the misdirection of aid programmes; cultural diversity within Eastern Europe; the role of foreign investment; the direction of economic and political reform; and which direction Eastern Europe shoulld be going in now.
Author | : Bulent Gokay |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131788132X |
From the hardening grip of Soviet domination under Brezhnev to the collapse of communism and its aftermath, Bulent Gokay provides the essential introduction to Eastern Europe in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 spelt the end of reformist communism and the tightening of Soviet control throughout Eastern Europe. In spite of this, several countries within the Soviet Bloc managed to retain varying degrees of independence over the next two decades. Focusing on the struggle towards economic and social modernisation in the region and the competing influences of East and West in a dangerous Cold War. Bulent Gokay shows how individual circumstances and diverse national characteristics made a uniform application of the Soviet model impossible, and charts the growing resistance to domination and the momentous events which finally toppled Soviet power in the region.
Author | : Bruno Grancelli |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2011-06-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 311088447X |
Author | : Agnes Gagyi |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783030789176 |
Author | : Henri Vogt |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Czech Republic |
ISBN | : 9781571818959 |
Scholarly interpretations of the collapse of communism and developments thereafter have tended to be primarily concerned with people's need to rid themselves of the communist system, of their past. The expectations, dreams, and hopes that ordinary Eastern Europeans had when they took to the streets in 1989, and have had ever since, have therefore been overlooked - and our understanding of the changes in post-communist Europe has remained incomplete. Focusing primarily on five key areas, such as the heritage of 1989 revolutions, ambivalence, disillusionment, individualism, and collective identities, this book explores the expectations and goals that ordinary Eastern Europeans had during the 1989 revolutions and the decade thereafter, and also the problems and disappointments they encountered in the course of the transformation. The analysis is based on extensive interviews with university students and young intellectuals in the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Estonia in the 1990s, which in themselves have considerable value as historical documents.
Author | : Agnes Gagyi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783030789169 |
By the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in most parts of Eastern Europe, high expectations associated with postsocialist transition have been substituted by disillusionment. After 1990, Eastern Europe has been internationally treated with a low-interest acknowledgement of what was understood as a slow and erratic, but unquestionable process of integration in a Western-dominated world order. In the context of today's geopolitical reorganization, East European examples of authoritarian politics once again become discussed as significant reference points for Western and global politics. This book represents a contribution to this debate from a distinctive East European perspective: that of new left scholars and activists from the region, whose lifetime largely corresponds to the transformations of the postsocialist period, and who came to develop an understanding of their environment in terms of its relations to global capitalist processes. A both theoretical and empirical contribution, the book provides essential insights on topics conventionally associated with East European transition from privatization to the politicized slogans of corruption or civil society, and analyzes their connection to the newest reconfigurations of postsocialist capitalist regimes. As a contribution to contemporary debates on the present global socio-political transformation, this collection does not only seek to debate analytical statements, but also to change the field where analytical stakes are set, by adding perspectives that think Eastern Europe's global relations from within the regional context and its political stakes. Agnes Gagyi works on East European politics and social movements from the perspective of the region's long-term global integration. She is researcher on East European social movements at the University of Gothenburg, and member of the Working Group for Public Sociology "Helyzet" in Budapest. Ondřej Slačálek is a political scientist and journalist, he focuses on East European politics, nationalism and social movements. He works at Charles University, Prague. He is a regular collaborator of Czech new left journal A2/A2larm.
Author | : Charles Walker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135701245 |
Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, political participation, volunteering, employment and family formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition, while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and 'West'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Youth Studies.
Author | : Rudolf Bahro |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1789606810 |
The contemporary Marxist writer provides analyses of socialist theory, modern political struggle, and socialist societies in Eastern Europe.