Overview

Using examples of democratic changes in former Communist states, Wejnert provides a dual-level conceptual framework that concentrates on objectification of the fundamental and unique roles of various mechanisms and components of transition. The first of these two levels is an integrative framework of the diverse social processes of transition. Here, the essays included examine the effects of global and domestic factors, and diffusion on the articulation of transition from communism. The second level is a similarly integrative framework of the interrelation of three distinct social entities of economy, polity, and culture as recorded at a time-point when the polity-economy-culture components of the transition are inserted into the processes of social change. This collection brings together Eastern European, Russian, and American scholars as well as prominent political figures from democratically elected East European governments. Included are Jan Kavan, Vice-Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and Grzegorz Kolodko of Poland, the designer of the post-communist therapy economic plan. The theoretical and pratically oriented papers are enriched by the broad perspective of the book, making it particularly useful to scholars, students, and researchers of Eastern Europe and Russia.

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Author:   Barbara Wejnert
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.727kg
ISBN:  

9780275972349

ISBN 10:   0275972348
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   30 March 2002
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface Introduction Integration of the Processes and Components of Transition to Democracy by Barbara Wejnert Transition to Democracy: Implications on Politics McCarthyism has a New Name--""Lustration"": A Personal Recount of Political Events by Jan Kavan The Contribution of Collective Protests to the Softening of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe by Barbara Wejnert A Line of Blood: How December, 1970 Prepared Polish Workers for Political Transition in 1989 by Jack M. Bloom Transition to Democracy: Impact on Ecomomy Transitional Economies and Income Inequality: The Case of Estonia by Nancy Brandon Tuma, Mikk Titma, and Rein Murakas Fiscal Policy and Capital Formation in Transition Economies by Grzegorz W. Kolodko Privatization Politics in Russia: Success or Failure? Privatization and the Development of Corporate Governance Structure by Alexei Makeshin Transition to Democracy: Social Problems and Policy Issues Nouveaux Riches vs Nouveaux Pauvres: Policy Making in Transition Economies by Grzegorz W. Kolodko Polish Working Class's Vision of a Well Ordered Economy by Juliusz Gardawski A Country in Transition: Health Crisis in Ukraine with Focus on Tobacco and Alcohol by Lara A. Romaniuk Polish Women during Transition to Democracy: A Preliminary Research Report by J. Mayone Stycos and Barbara Wejnert Transition to Democracy: Impact on Culture Cultural and Civic Movements Prefiguring the Breakdown of the Socialist Regime in Yugoslavia by Stjepan Gredelj The Artist's Freedom and Democracy by Maria Nowakowska Stycos and Grazyna Borkowska The Politics of Architecture and Architecture of Politics by Sergei Zherebkin and Barbara Wejnert Concluding Remarks The Impact of Democratic Transitions on Politics, Economy, and Culture: Lessons from Eastern Europe and Russia by Barbara Wejnert Bibliography Index"

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[S]cholars of the transition will find the book valuable to their own understanding and research. I also recommend the book for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that concern social developments in postcommunist Europe. For this audience, the book provides an excellent overview of the different aspects and complexities of the ongoing transition. -James Kluegel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For upper-division undergraduates, researchers, and faculty. -CHOICE �S�cholars of the transition will find the book valuable to their own understanding and research. I also recommend the book for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that concern social developments in postcommunist Europe. For this audience, the book provides an excellent overview of the different aspects and complexities of the ongoing transition. -James Kluegel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ?For upper-division undergraduates, researchers, and faculty.?-CHOICE ?[S]cholars of the transition will find the book valuable to their own understanding and research. I also recommend the book for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that concern social developments in postcommunist Europe. For this audience, the book provides an excellent overview of the different aspects and complexities of the ongoing transition.?-James Kluegel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

?[S]cholars of the transition will find the book valuable to their own understanding and research. I also recommend the book for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that concern social developments in postcommunist Europe. For this audience, the book provides an excellent overview of the different aspects and complexities of the ongoing transition.?-James Kluegel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Author Information

BARBARA WEJNERT teaches Political Sociology at Cornell University, where she is involved in research on world-wide spread of democracy. Among her book publications are Women in Post-Communism and Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Quality of Life.

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