East Central Europe since 1989

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  • ISBN 9781032318240
  • Weight: 910g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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This groundbreaking treatment of post-communist developments in East Central Europe examines politics, economics, media, religious institutions, transitional justice, gender inequality, and literature, highlighting the overt functions, latent functions, and side effects associated with each sphere.

Communism in East Central Europe had cracks from the beginning, as uprisings in East Germany in 1953 and Hungary in 1956 demonstrated. But with the establishment of the Independent Trade Union Solidarity in Poland in the Summer of 1980, communism went into steady decline and, between 1988 and 1991, crumbled. What followed has been an unsteady transition to various forms of often corrupt pluralism with democracy doing best in the Czech Republic (with the exception of the years 2017–2021) and Slovenia, and worst in Hungary, Albania, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Drawing on the functionalist theory of Robert K. Merton, the authors examine what policymakers – communist and post-communist – were or are trying to accomplish, the intended and unintended results of these policies, and the side-effects they have produced.

This volume will be of interest not only to specialists in East Central Europe but also to graduate and undergraduate students, members of the diplomatic corps, and general readers.

Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is the author of 16 scholarly books, including East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991 and editor or co-editor of 42 scholarly books.

Lavinia Stan is the European Research Area (ERA) Chair and Professor at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. She is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of numerous previous books, among them Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience.