The Reemergence Of Civil Society In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union
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| Author | : Zbigniew Rau |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2019-06-26 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1000305112 |
The turmoil that shook Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and challenged traditional centers of power in the Soviet Union has touched off an intense debate about the forces behind the recent collapse of Soviet-type systems. Civil society, a key concept in the debate, is the focus of this thought-provoking volume, which contrasts the views of Eastern scholars and activists in independent movements against those of Western academics. The authors' various perspectives on the struggle between the people and their governments highlight different facets of civil society, providing new insights into its definition, origin, and function within a nation's public life.
| Author | : Marc Morjé Howard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2003-03-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521011525 |
Seeks to explain the weakness of civil society in the countries of post-Communist Europe.
| Author | : Kazimierz Poznański |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1992-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780813314822 |
| Author | : Janice Giffen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Asia, Central |
| ISBN | : 9781897748756 |
This book considers the applicability and use of civil society, both as a concept and in practice, in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The volume examines whether civil society organisations (CSOs) are a progressive force for change, or a safety net. Various forms of CSOs are investigated: NGOs and community based organisations, trade unions, political parties and religious groups, as well as more long-standing soviet and traditional institutions and practices. The book contains lessons and perspectives about civil society growth across time, and considers future directions.
| Author | : Elizabeth Dunn |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2004-03-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134827083 |
Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable in recent years, but what can such a term mean in the late twentieth century? Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, 'private' realm clearly separated in opposition to the state; nor should it be confined to the institutions of the 'voluntary' or 'non-governmental' sector. A broader understanding of civil society involves the investigation of everyday social practices, often elusive power relations and the shared moralities that hold communities together. By drawing on case materials from a range of contemporary societies, including the US, Britain, four of the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Middle and Far East, Civil Society demonstrates what anthropology contributes to debates taking place throughout the social sciences; adding up to an exciting renewal of the agenda for political anthropology.
| Author | : Robert Bideleux |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 714 |
| Release | : 2007-09-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134213190 |
This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region. Subjects covered include: Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours rival concepts of 'Central' and 'Eastern' Europe the experience and consequences of the two World Wars varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s post-Communist democratization and marketization the eastward enlargement of the EU. A History of Eastern Europe now includes two new chronologies – one for the Balkans and one for East-Central Europe – and a glossary of key terms and concepts, providing comprehensive coverage of a complex past, from antiquity to the present day.
| Author | : Ray Taras |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-07-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1349265535 |
This volume provides a cross-national analysis of the changing identities of various national and ethnic groups, their new political influence in the emergent democracies and their efforts to revive suppressed cultures. It begins with a theoretical analysis of the concepts of national identity and ethnicity. It features case studies of contemporary Belarussian, Polish and Ukrainian national identities before turning to a study of Eastern Europe's hidden ethnic minorities, like the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia, the Lemkos in Poland and the Gypsies in Bulgaria.
| Author | : Kevin F. F. Quigley |
| Publisher | : Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 1997-03-07 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780943875811 |
This pathbreaking study examines foundations' democracy assistance programs in Central Europe in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall, both measuring their size and evaluating their strategies.
| Author | : Michael E. Urban |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1997-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521566117 |
Blending first hand accounts of grassroots politics with an original theory of social relations under communism, this 1997 book seeks to explain one of the seminal events of this century: the rebirth of politics in Russia amid the collapse of the USSR. The authors trace the process from the pre-political period of dissident activity, through perestroika and the appearance of political groups and publications, elections, the formation of political parties and mass movements, counter-revolution and coup d'état, the victory of democratic forces and the organization of a Russian state; to the struggle of power in the post-communist epoch, the violent end of the first republic and the contentious relations engulfing its successor. By focusing on the popular forces which accomplished Russia's political rebirth, rather than the reforms of the Soviet establishment, this book offers an original perspective on this critical period.
| Author | : Jerzy Szacki |
| Publisher | : Central European University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1995-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781858660165 |
This work is the first comprehensive presentation of liberal thought in Central Europe, especially in Poland, before and after 1989. The book contains a critical analysis of the proto-liberal anti-communist democratic opposition, in particular its ideas of the autonomy of the individual and civil society, and a description of economic liberalism as an alternative liberal orientation. The author's main theme, however, is the dilemma of liberalism in a post-communist society in which it is faced with historically unprecedented challenges. In countries which have no liberal tradition or the social or economic conditions which encouraged the emergence of liberalism in the past, the classic tenets of liberalism are undergoing essential modifications. Liberalism inescapably is becoming "constructivist" and serves primarily as the justification for a remarkable kind of social engineering whose objective is the rapid building of capitalism. This book is both an important contribution to our knowledge of the post-communist world and a voice in thh discussion on the nature and future of liberalism.
