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Religion and Politics in Post‐Communism
2007Abstract The introductory chapter serves as theoretical, historical and factual background for the volume. In it we review the book's theoretical framework, research design and structure, and investigate the relationship between religion and politics in communist and post‐communist times, emphasizing the communist authorities’ control ...
Lavinia Stan, Lucian Turcescu
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Post-Communism: Postmodernity or Modernity Revisited?
The British Journal of Sociology, 1997Coinciding with the popularity of postmodern theory, the fall of communism appeared to offer further evidence of the exhaustion of modernity. Such analysis is grounded in a view that the Soviet system was the epitome of modernity. An alternative approach regards post-communism as opening new terrains of struggle for modernity.
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Introduction: Women and Post-Communism
2018The role of women is absolutely crucial, both economically and symbolically, in the transformation under way. Post-communist women’s heritage includes having received extensive benefits from state socialism and an inheritance of a Marxist intellectual discourse.
Nanette Funk, Magda Mueller
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Post‐communism in western Europe
Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 1996Martin J. Bull and Paul Heywood, Western European Communist Parties after the Revolutions of 1989 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994). Pp.xxv + 222; index. £40 (hardback) ISBN 0 312 12268 3 Pascal Del wit and Jean‐Michel De Wael, La Gauche face aux mutations en Europe (Brussels: Editions de l'Universite de Bruxelles, 1993). Pp.209 (paperback).
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1993
This chapter evaluates the chances of establishing properly functioning democratic systems in Central and Eastern Europe. The argument makes a number of assumptions. First, regimes of the pre-communist period were authoritarian, but not totalitarian, that is to say that while power was heavily concentrated in the hands of the ruling elite, some ...
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This chapter evaluates the chances of establishing properly functioning democratic systems in Central and Eastern Europe. The argument makes a number of assumptions. First, regimes of the pre-communist period were authoritarian, but not totalitarian, that is to say that while power was heavily concentrated in the hands of the ruling elite, some ...
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Post-communism and the Russian public
International Affairs, 2013This book, based on a survey by the Sociology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences completed in April 2011, provides, in the opinion of this reviewer, one of the most comprehensive accounts so far published of Russian opinion during the twenty years since the fall of communism. Based on a carefully weighted sample of respondents, it makes full
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Post-Communism: The Emerging Enigma
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Marxism, Communism and Post-communism
1999Marxism should have played a considerable part in enriching our understanding of communist systems. As a theory traditionally concerned with the relationship and interaction between economy/society (base) and the state (superstructure) Marxism’s analytical focus should have complemented and filled out the concern with politics that dominated liberal ...
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Catholicism and Post-communism in Croatia
1997The process of separation of the state from the Church has nowhere been finalized and is continuing with an uncertain outcome. Will the freedom in the society without help of the Church and the state bring happiness or emptiness to the people it is, according to the author, hard to foresee.
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