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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451068303321

Titolo

The New great transformation? : change and continuity in East-Central Europe / / edited by Christopher G.A. Bryant and Edmund Mokrzycki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-87251-8

0-203-30505-1

1-134-87252-6

1-280-32167-9

0-203-42174-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BryantChristopher G. A

MokrzyckiEdmund

Disciplina

306/.0947

Soggetti

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Electronic books.

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989-

Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989-

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: theorizing the changes in East-Central Europe; After the patronage state: a model in search of class interests; In pursuit of the democratic interest: the institutionalization of parties and interests in Eastern Europe; Economic utopianism and sociological realism: strategies for transformation in East-Central Europe; Values and the welfare state in Czechoslovakia; Revolution and restoration: on the origins of right-wing radical ideology in Hungary; The power structure in Hungary after the political transition

Privatization in East-Central Europe: similarities and contrasts in its applicationThe great transformation and privatization: three years of Polish experience; The great deformation: Polanyi, Poland and the terrors of planned spontaneity; Is there an alternative to market utopianism? A comment on Glasman; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This timely book provides an essential guide to the social, political and economic upheavals in post-communist Europe