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Het nieuwe Europa van Michael Palin
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ISBN: 9789022322420 Year: 2007 Publisher: Antwerpen Manteau

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Defeat of Solidarity
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ISBN: 0801443180 9780801443183 0801473438 9780801473432 1501729276 9781501729270 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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How did the fall of communism and the subsequent transition to capitalism in Eastern Europe affect the people who experienced it? And how did their anger affect the quality of the democratic systems that have emerged? Poland offers a particularly provocative case, for it was here where workers most famously seemed to have won, thanks to the role of the Solidarity trade union. And yet, within a few short years, they had clearly lost. An oppressive communist regime gave way to a capitalist society that embraced economic and political inequality, leaving many workers frustrated and angry. Their leaders first ignored them, then began to fear them, and finally tried to marginalize them. In turn, workers rejected their liberal leaders, opening the way for right-wing nationalists to take control of Solidarity. Ost tells a fascinating story about the evolution of post-communist society in Eastern Europe. Informed by years of fieldwork in Polish factory towns, scores of interviews with workers, labor activists, and politicians, and an exhaustive reading of primary sources, his new book gives voice to those who have not been heard. But even more, Ost proposes a novel theory about the role of anger in politics to show why such voices matter, and how they profoundly affect political outcomes. Drawing on Poland's experiences, Ost describes lessons relevant to democratization throughout Eastern Europe and to democratic theory in general.


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Discourse and transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.
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ISBN: 9780230521025 0230521029 134935600X 9786612277573 128227757X 0230594298 Year: 2009 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Inhoudsopgave [LoC] -- Theorising and analysing social change in Central and Eastern Europe : the contribution of (critical) discourse analysis / Michal Krzyżanowski and Ruth Wodak -- Reflecting social heteroglossia and accommodating diverse audiences : a challenge to the media / Brigitta Busch -- Contesting social space through language education debates in Latvia's media landscape / Gabrielle Hogan-Brun -- The (re)construction of refugees in Slovenian media / Igor Ž. Žagar -- On the "Europeanisation" of identity constructions in Polish political discourse after 1989 / Michal Krzyżanowski -- Governing abandoned children : the discursive construction of space in the case of "babybox" / Igor Nosál -- Critical juncture : Church Slavonic and the discourse of cultural preservation in post-Soviet Russia / Brian P. Bennett -- Narrating transition in East German company histories / Helen Kelly-Holmes -- "Mea culpa" : the social production of public disclosure and reconciliation with the past / Cristian Tileagă -- Small stories fight back : narratives of Polish economic migration on an internet forum / Aleksandra Galasińska -- Narratives of disenfranchised self in the Polish post-Communist reality / Dariusz Galasiński.

Democracy and democratization : post-communist Europe in comparative perspective
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ISBN: 0761956794 Year: 1999 Publisher: London Sage

What was socialism, and what comes next?
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ISBN: 0691011338 069101132X 1400813727 9786612753039 1282753037 1400821991 9781400813728 9781400821990 9780691011332 9780691011325 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.


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Citizenship policies in the New Europe
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ISBN: 9789089641083 9789048502257 9089641084 904850225X 9786612401916 1282401912 9781282401914 6612401915 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. How did newly formed states determine who would become their citizens? How do countries relate to their large emigrant communities, to ethnic kin minorities in neighbouring countries and to minorities in their own territory? And to which extent have their citizenship policies been affected by new immigration and integration into the European Union? Citizenship Policies in the

The politics of greed : how privatization structured politics in Central and Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 0742553078 0742553086 9780742553071 9780742553088 1461645158 9781461645153 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,

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An in-depth political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, The Politics of Greed demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters, both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the rule of law. Andrew Harrison Schwartz had unprecedented access to high-level Czech government officials during the Czech Republic's privatization process. This book is the result of the unique insights he gained and the innovative analytical framework he subsequently developed-ownership regime theory-which for the first time places ownershi

Europe undivided : democracy, leverage, and integration after communism
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ISBN: 019924118X 0199241198 9780199241187 9780191529061 0191529060 9780191602382 0191602388 9780199241194 9781435619333 1435619331 9786611190828 1281190829 0191608211 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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"Europe Undivided analyses the development of East European States post-1989 and their dynamic relationship with the EU. The author examines how the influence of an enlarging EU has created a convergence towards liberal democracy throughout the region, and provides insights into how the EU will function after enlargement."--Provided by publisher.

Social change and modernization : lessons from Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 3110144905 311088447X 9783110884470 9783110144901 Year: 1995 Volume: 65 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,

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No detailed description available for "Social Change and Modernization".

Social capital and the transition to democracy
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ISBN: 0415258146 0203428099 9780203428092 9786610073047 661007304X 9780415258142 9781134515318 1134515316 9781134515264 113451526X 9781134515301 1134515308 1280073047 9781280073045 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society.

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