Meandering in Transition
Thirty Years of Reforms and Identity in Post-Communist Europe
1st Edition
Published on 19. August 2021
422 pages
978-1-9787-9537-2 (ISBN)
Description
This edited collection addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition in Central Eastern Europe. Its contributors present a detailed analysis of the events unfolding during the last three decades in the region, focusing in particular on identity-building processes and reforms in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine.
The contributors outline reasons why some of these states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political regimes, jeopardizing their genuine integration with the West. A group of states which decided to preserve their Communist legacy is also explained.
The collection describes and scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and the evolution of discourses of belonging. It also traces the fluctuating dynamics of national decision-making and institution-building, as many of the post-Communist states reconsider and re-elaborate their initial ideas and visions of Europe today.
Finally, the collection brings to light the rapidly changing perceptions of the region by the major global actors-the European Union, People's Republic of China, Russian Federation, and others.
The contributors outline reasons why some of these states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political regimes, jeopardizing their genuine integration with the West. A group of states which decided to preserve their Communist legacy is also explained.
The collection describes and scrutinizes the formation of geopolitical affiliations and the evolution of discourses of belonging. It also traces the fluctuating dynamics of national decision-making and institution-building, as many of the post-Communist states reconsider and re-elaborate their initial ideas and visions of Europe today.
Finally, the collection brings to light the rapidly changing perceptions of the region by the major global actors-the European Union, People's Republic of China, Russian Federation, and others.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 tables;
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-9537-2 (9781978795372)
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Ostap Kushnir | Oleksandr Pankieiev
Meandering in Transition
Thirty Years of Reforms and Identity in Post-Communist Europe
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Persons
Ostap Kushnir is assistant professor at Lazarski University (Poland) and a lecturer with Coventry University programmes (UK)
Oleksandr Pankieiev is research coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
Oleksandr Pankieiev is research coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
Content
Part I: "Ideas of Europe" and the Post-Communist Space
Chapter 1: Shifting the Wall Further East. What Has Left of the "Eastern Europe" Thirty Years Later? by Mykola Riabchuk
Chapter 2: The Transition of "Transition": Assessing the Post-Communist Experience and Its Research by Mikhail Minakov
Chapter 3: Has the Post-Communist Transition Been Completed? Economic Perspective by Assen Slim
Part II: Post-Communist Transition and Identity-Building: View From "Within"
Chapter 4: Societies in Post-Communist Transition: Polish and Hungarian Experience by Adrian Chojan
Chapter 5: Exceptional but Different: Navigating Transition in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by Li Bennich-Björkman
Chapter 6: Czech Republic and Slovakia - Changing Perception of the European Integration Since 1989 by Juraj MaruSiak
Chapter 7: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Nation-Building in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine by Yevhen Mahda and Margaryta Khvostova
Chapter 8: Thirty Years After Communism - Bulgaria and Romania's Experience by Spa
Chapter 1: Shifting the Wall Further East. What Has Left of the "Eastern Europe" Thirty Years Later? by Mykola Riabchuk
Chapter 2: The Transition of "Transition": Assessing the Post-Communist Experience and Its Research by Mikhail Minakov
Chapter 3: Has the Post-Communist Transition Been Completed? Economic Perspective by Assen Slim
Part II: Post-Communist Transition and Identity-Building: View From "Within"
Chapter 4: Societies in Post-Communist Transition: Polish and Hungarian Experience by Adrian Chojan
Chapter 5: Exceptional but Different: Navigating Transition in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by Li Bennich-Björkman
Chapter 6: Czech Republic and Slovakia - Changing Perception of the European Integration Since 1989 by Juraj MaruSiak
Chapter 7: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Nation-Building in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine by Yevhen Mahda and Margaryta Khvostova
Chapter 8: Thirty Years After Communism - Bulgaria and Romania's Experience by Spa
