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Was denkt die eigene Bevölkerung Welche Themen und welche Probleme bewegen das Volk Welche Meinungen haben die Menschen von der politischen Elite Diese Fragen beschäftigen die Regierenden von jeher. Während in pluralistischen Gesellschaften die Medien oder Umfragen solche Fragen beantworten können, müssen die Herrschenden in Diktaturen andere Wege gehen, um sich ein Bild von der Bevölkerungsstimmung zu machen. Dabei greifen sie auch auf nachrichtendienstliche bzw. geheimpolizeiliche Methoden zurück. Stimmungsberichte von Inlandsgeheimdiensten zählten daher in Diktaturen zu den wichtigsten Informationsquellen der Staats- und Parteiführungen. Dies galt auch für die DDR, in der das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit die SED-Führung regelmässig über die Stimmung im Land unterrichtete. Der vorliegende Band stellt diese Stimmungsberichte in den breiteren Kontext der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Neben den Informationen des DDR-Staatssicherheitsdienstes behandeln die Beiträge auch Stimmungsberichte aus anderen kommunistischen Diktaturen wie der Sowjetunion, Bulgarien, China oder der CSSR. --

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The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated domestic opposition to 'shock therapy' and Washington Consensus reforms, but many fulfilled the membership requirements of the European Union and even adopted avant-garde neoliberal reforms like the flat tax and pension privatization. Neoliberalism in the postcommunist countries went farther and lasted longer than expected, but why? Unlike pre-existing theories based on domestic political-economic struggles, this book focuses on the imperatives of re-insertion into the international economy. Appel and Orenstein show how countries engaged in 'competitive signaling', enacting reforms in order to attract foreign investment. This signaling process explains the endurance and intensification of neoliberal reform in these countries for almost two decades, from 1989-2008, and its decline thereafter, when inflows of capital into the region suddenly dried up. This book will interest students of political economy and Eastern European and Eurasian politics.

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"The ruling communist parties of the postwar Soviet Bloc possessed nearly unprecedented power to shape every level of society; perhaps in part because of this, they have been routinely depicted as monolithic, austere, and even opaque institutions. Communist Parties Revisited takes a markedly different approach, investigating everyday life within basic organizations to illuminate the inner workings of Eastern Bloc parties. Ranging across national and transnational contexts, the contributions assembled here reconstruct the rituals of party meetings, functionaries' informal practices, intra-party power struggles, and the social production of ideology to give a detailed account of state socialist policymaking on a micro-historical scale"--

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This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written by cultural insiders who were brought up and educated on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain - spanning from Central Europe to mainland Asia - the book offers insights into the diverse spaces of socialist childhoods interweaving with broader political, economic, and social life. These evocative memories explore the experiences of children in navigating state expectations to embody “model socialist citizens” and their mixed feelings of attachment, optimism, dullness, and alienation associated with participation in “building” socialist futures. Drawing on the research traditions of autobiography, autoethnography, and collective biography, the authors challenge what is often considered ‘normal’ and ‘natural’ in the historical accounts of socialist childhoods, and engage in (re)writing histories that open space for new knowledges and vast webs of interconnections to emerge. This book will be compelling reading for students and researchers working in education, sociology and history, particularly those within the interdisciplinary fields of childhood and area studies. ‘The authors of this beautiful book are professional academics and intellectuals who grew up in different socialist countries. Exploring “socialist childhoods” in myriad ways, they draw on memories, and collective history, emotional insider knowledge and the measured perspective of an analyst. What emerges is life that was caught between real optimism and dullness, ethical commitments and ideological absurdities, selfless devotion to children and their treatment as a political resource. Such attention to detail and examination of the paradoxical nature of this time makes this collective effort not only timely but remarkably genuine.’ —Alexei Yurchak, University of California, USA.

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