Developments in East European PoliticsStephen White, Judy Batt, Paul G. Lewis Duke University Press, 1993 - 304 pages Formerly a part of the Soviet empire, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are now in the process of a complex transition from authoritarianism to more open systems based on political democracy and the market. Developments in East European Politics takes as its starting point the dramatic developments of the late 1980s and early 1990s and the factors that have helped to shape the region as a whole, focusing in detail on the changing politics of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and the successor republics in the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. At the core of the book is a set of comparative chapters considering developments in voting behaviour, the emerging party systems, political leadership and participation, economic reform and social policy in Eastern Europe. The volume concludes with an assessment of the political science of post-communist Eastern Europe, a consideration of its place in the wider world and a presentation of selected voices of the people of Eastern Europe themselves. Written by leading specialists from both sides of the Atlantic, this introductory but authoritative text provides an up-to-date and unrivalled guide to the forces that are reshaping half a continent. |
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... Soviet Union , and most of them were bound to the Soviet Union by economic and military alliances as well as by a close interconnection at the level of their communist party leaderships . Their fate , it appeared , had been largely ...
... Soviet Union , and most of them were bound to the Soviet Union by economic and military alliances as well as by a close interconnection at the level of their communist party leaderships . Their fate , it appeared , had been largely ...
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... Soviet Union declined by 90 per cent , due in part to the USSR's own economic and political difficulties . In earlier years , the Soviet Union had absorbed about a third of Poland's exports . Political Instability and the Growth of ...
... Soviet Union declined by 90 per cent , due in part to the USSR's own economic and political difficulties . In earlier years , the Soviet Union had absorbed about a third of Poland's exports . Political Instability and the Growth of ...
Page 67
... Soviet troops in 1956 , had , during the course of the 1960s , negotiated two critical political compromises : a ' social compact ' with the Hungarian people , and a power political bargain with the Soviet Union . In the latter , Kadar ...
... Soviet troops in 1956 , had , during the course of the 1960s , negotiated two critical political compromises : a ' social compact ' with the Hungarian people , and a power political bargain with the Soviet Union . In the latter , Kadar ...
Contents
Eastern Europe after Communism Stephen White 2372 | 2 |
Culture and Identity in PostCommunist Europe | 16 |
X3 Poland David S Mason | 36 |
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