Adaptation and transformation in communist and post-communist systems
By: edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780429034350
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments; Political culture; Cultural pluralism; Economic policy; Post-communism; Légitimité des gouvernements; Diversité culturelle; Politique économique; Postcommunisme; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Popular Culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- -- 1; title: Processes of Decay, Engines of Transformation: An Introduction -- (starting p. 1) / -- Sabrina Petra Ramet -- 2; title: The Rise of Public Legitimation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- (starting p. 11) / -- Daniel N. Nelson -- 3; title: German Economic and Monetary Union: Transition to a Market Economy -- (starting p. 41) / -- Patricia T. Smith -- 4; title: Socialism and Underdevelopment -- (starting p. 79) / -- Valerie Bunce -- 5; title: Hegemony, Class, and State Socialism: Toward a Theoretical Approach to Cultural Change, with Application to the Chinese Case -- (starting p. 111) / -- Marc J. Blecher -- 6; title: Adaptation and Transformation of Religious Policy in Communist and Post-Communist Systems -- (starting p. 141) / -- Sabrina Petra Ramet -- 7; title: Revitalization Processes in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Religion as Active Participant in Political Transformation -- (starting p. 185) / -- Douglas Durasoff -- 8; title: The Press of Change: Mass Communications in Late Communist and Post-Communist Societies -- (starting p. 209) / -- Owen V. Johnson -- 9; title: Rising Above the Past: The Struggle for Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe -- (starting p. 241) / -- Valerie Bunce -- 10; title: When Systems Collapse: Toward a Theory About the Relationship Between System Decay and Civil Strife -- (starting p. 279) / -- Sabrina Petra Ramet; title: About the Editor and Contributors -- (starting p. 301); title: Index-- (starting p. 303)