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Author:   Irena Grudzinska-Gross ,  Irena Grudzinska-Gross ,  Andrzej W. Tymowski
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9783631647004

ISBN 10:   363164700
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Zygmunt Bauman: Intellectuals in East-Central Europe: Continuity and Change – Tony Judt: The Dilemmas of Dissidence: The Politics of Opposition in East-Central – Ferenc Fehér: On Making Central Europe – Ernest Gellner: The Dramatis Personae of History – Ivan Szelenyi: Alternative Futures for Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary – Václav Klaus/Tomáš Ježek: Social Criticism, False Liberalism, and Recent Changes in Czechoslovakia – Vesna Pusić: A Country by Any Other Name. Transition and Stability in Croatia and Yugoslavia – Elemer Hankiss: Our Recent Pasts: Recent Developments in East Central Europe in the Light of Various Social Philosophies – Katherine Verdery: Homage to a Transylvanian Peasant – Jan T. Gross: Social Consequences of War: Preliminaries to the Study of Imposition of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe – Maria Todorova: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Communist Legacy in Eastern Europe – Vladimir Tismaneanu/Dan Pavel:Romania’s Mystical Revolutionaries: The Generation of Angst and Adventure Revisied – István Deák: A Fatal Compromise? The Debate Over Collaboration and Resistance in Hungary.

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This volume is recommended to a wide range of historians, sociologists and political scientists interested in the history of system transition in Eastern Europe. (Patryk Wasiak, Zeitschrift fur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 64/2015)

Author Information

Irena Grudzińska Gross is co-editor in chief of East European Politics and Societies – and Cultures and teaches at the Department of Slavic Literatures at Princeton University (USA). She is Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science. Andrzej W. Tymowski is a member of the editorial board of East European Politics and Societies – and Cultures. He is Director of International Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies and assistant professor in the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw.

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