Landmark 1989 : Central and Eastern European societies twenty years after the system change / Heinrich Best, Agnieszka Wenninger, eds.

Other Title:

Central and Eastern European societies twenty years after the system change

Publication:

Berlin : Lit ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Publishers [distributor], c2010.

Format/Description:

Book
297 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects:

Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
Post-communism -- Europe, Central -- Congresses.
Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Europe, Central -- Social conditions -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Europe, Central -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Equality -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
Equality -- Europe, Central -- Congresses.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe, Central -- Congresses.

Contents:

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

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.

Contributor:

Best, Heinrich.
Wenninger, Agnieszka.
Gesellschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Infrastruktureinrichtungen.

ISBN:

3643104499
9783643104496 (pbk.)

OCLC:

503648059

Publisher Number:

99944093553

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