Property in East Central Europe

Property in East Central Europe
Author: Hannes Siegrist
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2014-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782384626

Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights of land ownership, ensuring predictability of social processes and individual autonomy, was largely not fulfilled. The national appropriation of property in the interwar period and the communist era represent an onerous legacy for the postcommunist (re)construction of a liberal-individualist property regime. However, as the scholars in this collection show, after the demise of communism in Eastern Europe property is again a major factor in shaping individual identity and in providing the political order and culture with a foundational institution. This volume analyzes both historical and contemporary forms of land ownership in Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia in a multidisciplinary framework including economic history, legal and political studies, and social anthropology.

East Central Europe

East Central Europe
Author: Wojciech Roszkowski
Publisher: Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Instytut Jagielloński
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 8365972204

What is East Central Europe? Can it be defined with any precision? The question of definition is a difficult one as is ussually the case concerning borderlands whose historical developments show little continuity and an uncertain identity born of the conflict between aspirations and reality. It is in East Central Europe that „no peace settlement is ever final, no frontiers are secure and each generation must begin its work anew”. Is there any chance that this definition will become out of date?

Postsocialist Pathways

Postsocialist Pathways
Author: David Stark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1998-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521589741

This book, first published in 1998, analyzes democratization and economic change in the postsocialist societies of East Central Europe.

The Privatization Process in East-Central Europe

The Privatization Process in East-Central Europe
Author: Michal Mejstrík
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461563518

It is beyond any doubt that East-Central European countries such as Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia has dramatically changed its shape through its radical transition from centrally planned to the market economies in last 7 years. Many economists divide the process of economic transformation into areas of Stabilization, Liberalization, and Privatization/Restructuring. The traditional view is that stabilization and liberalization can be achieved rather quickly-by balancing budgets, balance of payments, tightening money supply, freeing prices and liberalizing trade-but that the area of privatization is one that could be moved to the future and will require much more time. Until 1991, none of the post-communist nations except former East Germany (which had a large decree of support from West Germany) had succeeded in privatizing large numbers of enterprises, even though more than two years had passed since the changes in government in these nations. The privatization has been, however, seen as an extremely important part of reform package together with stabilization and liberalization especially in the Czech Republic from the very beginning. The Czechs originally as a part of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic embarked on an unprecedented path that should have lead not only to stabilization and liberalization, but also to very rapid, mass privatization of its sector of large enterprises that have dominated its economy to an extreme extent.

East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
Author: Michael Bradshaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317905024

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region.

Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700

Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700
Author: Jaroslav Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317003403

Whilst much has been written about early modern urban history, the majority of this work has focussed on Western Europe with relatively little available in English on towns and cities in the former communist East. However, in recent years urban scholars have increasingly looked to a much more inclusive picture of Europe that compares and contrasts development across the whole continent. Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, this book provides an insight into a number of key issues concerning the economic, social and demographic trends in early modern East-Central European urban history. Taking a supra-national perspective, across a long time span, it examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state building and economic change on the transformation of medieval urban communities into early modern societies. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, particularly the registers of new citizens kept by many towns and cities, a fascinating picture of urban development and social structure is reconstructed that not only tells us much about East-Central Europe, but adds to our knowledge of the whole continent.

East-Central European Economies in Transition

East-Central European Economies in Transition
Author: John P. Hardt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 915
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315481758

This volume makes JEC-commissioned expert studies of economic developments in East-Central Europe available to business people, educators and students. Coverage includes economic, political and social reform issues, regional relations, and the impact of Western assistance programmes.

The Routledge History of East Central Europe Since 1700

The Routledge History of East Central Europe Since 1700
Author: Irina Livezeanu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351863436

"Covers territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, exploring the origins and evolution of modernity in this region"--Provided by the publisher.

East Central Europe in Exile Volume 2

East Central Europe in Exile Volume 2
Author: Anna Mazurkiewicz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443852104

The East Central Europe in Exile series consists of two volumes which contain chapters written by both esteemed and renowned scholars, as well as young, aspiring researchers whose work brings a fresh, innovative approach to the study of migration. Altogether, there are thirty-eight chapters in both volumes focusing on the East Central European émigré experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first volume, Transatlantic Migrations, focuses on the reasons for emigration from the lands of East Central Europe; from the Baltic to the Adriatic, the intercontinental journey, as well as on the initial adaptation and assimilation processes. The second volume is slightly different in scope, for it focuses on the aspect of negotiating new identities acquired in the adopted homeland. The authors contributing to Transatlantic Identities focus on the preservation of the East Central European identity, maintenance of contacts with the “old country”, and activities pursued on behalf of, and for the sake of, the abandoned homeland. Combined, both volumes describe the transnational processes affecting East Central European migrants.