Adaptation and Transformation in Communist and Post-Communist Systems

by Sabrina Petra Ramet (Editor)

Overview

This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367004491
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2019
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of six other books, among them Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (1997) and Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia (1998). She has also edited a dozen books, mostly about Eastern Europe and Russia. David S. Mason is professor of political science at Butler University. His publications include Public Opinion and Political Change in Poland and Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Communist States.

Table of Contents

1. Processes of Decay, Engines of Transformation: An Introduction 2. The Rise of Public Legitimation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 3. German Economic and Monetary Union: Transition to a Market Economy 4. Socialism and Underdevelopment 5. Hegemony, Class, and State Socialism: Toward a Theoretical Approach to Cultural Change, with Application to the Chinese Case 6. Adaptation and Transformation of Religious Policy in Communist and Post-Communist Systems 7. Revitalization Processes in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Religion as Active Participant in Political Transformation 8. The Press of Change: Mass Communications in Late Communist and Post-Communist Societies 9. Rising Above the Past: The Struggle for Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe 10. When Systems Collapse: Toward a Theory About the Relationship Between System Decay and Civil Strife