Beschreibung
The book consists of papers of eminent sociologists and political scientists on transition to democracy in East European countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, ex-Yugoslavia and Romania. The topics include collaboration, resistance, peasantry, intellectuals, tradition, nationalism, communist parties, Central Europe and dissidents.
Autorenportrait
Irena Grudzi?ska Gross is co-editor in chief of
and teaches at the Department of Slavic Literatures at Princeton University (USA). She is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science.
Andrzej W. Tymowski is a member of the editorial board of
. He is Director of International Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies and assistant professor in the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw.
Rezension
«This volume is recommended to a wide range of historians, sociologists and political scientists interested in the history of system transition in Eastern Europe.»
(Patryk Wasiak, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 64/2015)
Inhalt
Contents: Zygmunt Bauman: Intellectuals in East-Central Europe: Continuity and Change – Tony Judt: The Dilemmas of Dissidence: The Politics of Opposition in East-Central – Ferenc Fehér: On Making Central Europe – Ernest Gellner: The Dramatis Personae of History – Ivan Szelenyi: Alternative Futures for Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary – Václav Klaus/Tomáš Ježek: Social Criticism, False Liberalism, and Recent Changes in Czechoslovakia – Vesna Pusi?: A Country by Any Other Name. Transition and Stability in Croatia and Yugoslavia – Elemer Hankiss: Our Recent Pasts: Recent Developments in East Central Europe in the Light of Various Social Philosophies – Katherine Verdery:
Homage to a Transylvanian Peasant – Jan T. Gross
Social Consequences of War: Preliminaries to the Study of Imposition
of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe – Maria Todorova: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Communist Legacy
in Eastern Europe – Vladimir Tismaneanu/Dan Pavel:Romania’s Mystical Revolutionaries: The Generation of Angst
and Adventure Revisied – István Deák: A Fatal Compromise? The Debate Over Collaboration and Resistance in Hungary.
