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Activism
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Anti-communism
Anti-intellectualism
Autarky
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Authoritarianism
Boycott
Captive Nations
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Censorship
Central Committee
Civil disobedience
Civil disorder
Class action
Class conflict
Communism
Communist propaganda
Communist state
Counter-revolutionary
Counterhegemony
Coup d'etat
Criticism
Czechoslovakia
De-Stalinization
Decommunization
Defection
Demagogue
Demobilization
Demoralization (warfare)
Deportation
Dictatorship
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Disenchantment
Dissident
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Ethnic conflict
Extremism
Failed state
Group conflict
Hostility
Imperialism
Institution
Insurgency
International isolation
International sanctions
Intimidation
Labor unrest
Martial law
Martial law in Poland
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Mass arrest
Military dictatorship
Nemesis at Potsdam
Non-cooperation movement
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
Opposition Party
Police state
Political apathy
Political corruption
Political crime
Political dissent
Political prisoner
Political repression
Political violence
Politics
Politique
Power politics
Power vacuum
Prague Spring
Protest
Psychological warfare
Radicalization
Rebellion
Regime
Reign of Terror
Resistance movement
Self-immolation
Social criticism
Soviet Union
Stalinism
State socialism
States and Social Revolutions
Student protest
Subversion
Terrorism
Totalitarianism
Trade union
Underdevelopment
Underground press
Veto
War
War crime
Withering away of the state
Product details
- ISBN 9780691011134
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 20 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Classical images of state-socialism developed in contemporary social sciences were founded on simple presuppositions. State-socialist regimes were considered to be politically stable due to their pervasive institutional and ideological control over the everyday lives of their citizens, impervious to reform and change, and representative of extreme political and economic dependency. Despite their contrasting historical experiences, they have been treated as basically identical in their institutional design, social and economic structures, and policies. Grzegorz Ekiert challenges this notion in a comparative analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia (1968-76), and Poland (1980-89). The author maintains that the nature and consequences of these crises can better explain the distinctive experiences of East Central European countries under communist rule than can the formal characteristics of their political and economic systems or their politically dependent status.
He explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and state institutions, altered the relationship between the state and various groups and organizations within society, and modified the political practices of these regimes. He shows how these events transformed cultural categories, produced collective memories, and imposed long-lasting constraints on mass political behavior and the policy choices of ruling elites. These crises shaped the political evolution of the region, produced important cross-national differences among state-socialist regimes, and contributed to the distinctive patterns of their collapse.
Grzegorz Ekiert is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University.
