Communism, Pol. Science, Soviet Studies, Marxism

Communist Political Systems: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

WHITE, STEPHEN

Schopflin, George

Gardner,John

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Communist and Postcommunist Political Systems: An Introduction

Saich, Tony

The third edition of this text provides a background to the politics of China, Eastern Europe and what was the Soviet Union. The book has been rewritten throughout to reflect the emergence of pluralist multi-party systems and non Communist governments are marked.

Palgrave HE UK

The communist experience in Central and Eastern Europe has been one of the most extraordinary political experiments of the 20th century. Its long-term effects, moreover, will continue to be felt within the countries subjected to it for many years to come, as they struggle to return to democracy. In this book, George Schopflin provides an analysis of what communism sought to do, how it was first able to sustain itself in power against considerable popular opposition and why it collapsed, after four decades, in exhaustion. Schopflin's argument is a political one: communism came to power by a combination of force and guile, but as its promises of a secular utopia proved vain, it was unable to gain the popular backing that would have given it leeway to change. Communist ideology began by offering a boundless vision of prosperity, but within a short period of time it grew rigid and, eventually, emptied of content. Its modernization project turned out to be a distorted version of Stalin's industrialization plans, imposed on Central and Eastern Europe without any regard for local conditions. When attempts were made to adapt communism to local needs, the Kremlin stepped in to block these initiatives, as happened in Hungary and Poland in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and in Poland again in 1980-1. By the 1980s the stagnant system of Soviet communism, with its rigid agenda, had lost its legitimacy, leading to collapse in 1989. George Schopflin's analysis of these processes offers an insight into the nature of revolutions, modernization, and the relationship between rulers and ruled in totalising societies, concluding with an assessment of the difficulties of post-communism.

Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992

Blackwell Pub.

The communist experience in Central and Eastern Europe has been one of the most extraordinary political experiments of the twentieth century. Its long-term effects, moreover, will continue to be felt within its countries for many years to come, as they struggle to return to democracy. In this book, George Schopflin provides an exceptional analysis of what communism sought to do, how it was first able to sustain itself in power against considerable popular opposition, and why it collapsed, after four decades, in exhaustion.

Politics in Eastern Europe

Wiley/Blackwell

<div>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.</div>

Yugoslavia In The 1980s (Westview Replica Edition)

History

Martin, Chris

Hopken, Wolfgang

Remington, Robin A

Ramet, Pedro

Europe

Westview Press

Abiotic stresses caused by drought, salinity, toxic metals, temperature extremes, and nutrient poor soils are among the major constraints to plant growth and crop production worldwide. While crop breeding strategies to improve yields have progressed, a better understanding of the genetic and biological mechanisms underpinning stress adaptation is needed. Genes For Plant Abiotic Stress presents the latest research on recently examined genes and alleles and guides discussion of the genetic and physiological determinants that will be important for crop improvement in the future.

Nations, Identity, Power

NYU Press

Nationalism is pivotal to any understanding of contemporary politics, but our conception of it as a historical and contemporary phenomenon remains fragmentary and nebulous. In Nations, Identity, Power, George Schöpflin analyzes the contradictions inherent in our understanding of nationalism in order to fashion a new intellectual synthesis. In particular he questions why nations in the West are able to live with the nation as the legitimate space for democratic institutions, whereas in the post-communist world, especially in Eastern Europe, ethnicity is preeminent. Schöpflin argues that the nation is simultaneously ethnic, civic and structured by the state. Hence the excesses of ethnicity derive from the shortcomings of state capacity and the weakness of civil society, rather than being an inherent evil. If ethnicity is alive and well, what is its role? Here again, his answer is challenging: ethnicity is one of the bases for consent to be ruled by the interventionist and rationalizing modern state. With due sensitivity to the implicit, the symbolic, and the ways in which power is legitimized, Schöpflin applies his understanding of nationalism to various East and Central European case studies, including Yugoslavia and Hungary. He also compares the role of ethnicity in other states, including Britain. Overcoming the limits of both liberal and Marxist paradigms, this novel and thought-provoking book brings us several steps closer to understanding the intricacies of the nation-state and the operation of identity politics in the modern world.

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Communist Political Systems: An Introduction

Communist and Postcommunist Political Systems: An Introduction

Communist and Postcommunist Political Systems: An Introduction

Communist Political Systems: An Introduction

Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992

Politics in Eastern Europe

Yugoslavia In The 1980s (Westview Replica Edition)

Nations, Identity, Power

Nations, Identity, Power