Drawing on a selection of papers presented to the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies held in Warsaw in 1995, the text presents a broad cross-section of thinking about postcommunist developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Specialists from the region and the West apply their insights to challenge some conventional views on the transition. The book is both diverse and focused, suggesting that the experience of democratization is an open-ended process in which those involved learn both from their own experience and from comparative transitions elsewhere. It provides a source for the comparative analysis of democratization.
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Basingstoke
Großbritannien
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 224 mm
Breite: 146 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-333-69552-4 (9780333695524)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
General Editor's Introduction - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Democratic Experience; R.Sakwa - Experiences of Democratisation: Elements of a Comparative Historical Framework; A.Szakolczai - Gorbachev's Bitter Draft: Failure to Achieve a New Union Treaty, 1988-91; J.Russell - Continuity and Change in Historical Thinking in Belarus: some Critical Remarks on Post-Soviet Historiography; R.Lindner - Regionalism: An Underestimated Dimension of State-building in Ukraine; G.Nemiria - Elites of North-Eastern Kazakjstan in a New Geopolitical Context, 1989-95; N.Melvin - Civil Society Endangered; D.N. Nelson - The Structuring of Party Systems in Postcommunism: The Roles of Political Process and Social Cleavage; J.Bielasiak - The Changing Role of Local Government in the Post-communist Transformation; M.Illner - Trade Unions and the Making of Civil Society in Russia; V.Peschanskii - The Emerging Order: Bulgarian Experiences with Democracy; R.Daskalov - Polish Responses to Global Challenges: Geopolitics of Central and East European Transformation; K.Zielke - Cultural Difference: Russia's Putative Entry into the European Union; J.Armstrong - The Emergence of Democracy in South Africa and Poland: A Comparative Experience; U.J.van Beek - Index
