Landmark 1989
Subtitle: Central and Eastern European societies twenty years after the system change
By: Heinrich Best, Agnieszka Wenninger, eds
Contributors: Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen
Publisher: Lit; Transaction Publishers [distributor]
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9783643104496
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Post-communism; Congresses; Social conditions; Politics and government; Equality; Elite (Social sciences)
Other titles: Central and Eastern European societies twenty years after the system change
Notes: "The present volume includes the results of the conference 'Landmark 1989. Glimpses on Central and Eastern European Societies Twenty Years After the System Change,' organized in Berlin on 2-4 April 2009 by the GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences"--P. [5].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Plausible theory, unexpected results : the rapid democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe / Wolfgang Merkel; title: Historical legacies and the politics of history : an introduction / Stefan Garsztecki; title: Mirror splinters : on teh collective memory of socialism / Éva Kovács; title: Poles toward the past : insights from sociological research carried out since 1989 / Andrzej Szpociński; title: Historical legacies and politics of history in Ukraine : introductory remarks / Andriy Portnov; title: Homo sovieticus in interpersonal relationships before and after the collapse of communism / Christopher S. Swader; title: Homo sovieticus and the change of values : the case of Poland / Mira Marody; title: Basic human values and identity research in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after 1989 / Indrek Tart; title: Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe : an introduction / Kazimierz M. Slomczyński; title: Social structure and social inequality in Poland after 1989 / Bogdan W. Mach; title: Monitoring educational inequalities in the Czech Republic : resources, data and findings / Jana Straková; title: Social inequalities in Bulgaria / Velina Topalova and Todor Hristov; title: Social inequality and social problems in Romania : old and new patterns / Irina Tomescu-Dubrow; title: Elite change and democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe / Heinrich Best; title: Elite change and systemic change : a research note / György Lengyel; title: Research on elite dynamics in post-communist Romania / Laurentiu Stefan; title: Elite studies in Russia : main directions, results and challenges / Oxana Gaman-Golutvina; title: Researching Europe / Karen Hernderson; title: From mere research assistance to independent mature research : European integration research in Slovenia / Danica Fink-Hafner; title: The European Union in Hungary and beyond : state of the art and new perspectives / Gabriella Ilonszki.