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Title

Postcommunism / by Richard Sakwa.

Author

Sakwa, Richard.

Publication

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

vi, 153 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Postcommunism has joined the list of terms like postmodernity and postcolonialism that defines the spirit of our age. Designed for undergraduate courses and an essential reference for those more familiar with the field, this authoritative text examines the validity and ramifications of the concept and places it in the broader context of global change."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Concepts in the social sciences

Uniform Title

Concepts in the social sciences

Subject

• Communism
• Post-communism
• Capitalism
• 89.15 communism
• Auswirkung
• Kommunismus
• Zusammenbruch
• Communisme
• Postcommunisme

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [128]-143) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Defining Postcommunism -- Statement of the problem -- Historical and philosophical context -- The Long Transcendence -- The road to postcommunism--reformist revisionism -- The road to postcommunism--revolutionary revisionism -- The Communist Experience -- The agony of communism -- The fall--the transcending revolutions of 1989-91 -- Self-transcendence and beyond -- Postcommunism in Practice -- The postcommunist syndrome--postcommunism versus democratization -- Economic transformation -- Democratic transition -- State reconstitution -- Social reinvention--civil society resurgent -- Party formation -- National reconfiguration -- International reorientation--new states in a new order -- Coming to Terms with Communism -- Conscience, context and revolution -- Decommunization, expediency and natural justice -- Communists after communism -- Communism after communism -- Paradoxes and Paradigms -- Paradoxes -- The anti-revolutionary revolutions -- The anti-revolution (and everything else) 'betrayed' -- 'Political' economy and 'economical' politics -- Paradigms -- The end of communism ... and of history? -- From ideology to culture -- Capitalism after communism -- Socialism after communism--paradigm regained? -- Postcommunism in Perspective -- Politics after communism--the death of the alternative? -- Transition and development -- The political aesthetics of postcommunism--reshaping subjectivity -- Postcommunism and the future--a postcommunist manifesto?

ISBN

• 0335200583
• 9780335200580
• 0335200575
• 9780335200573
• 0335202063
• 9780335202065

LCCN

99029821

OCLC

• ocm41273148
• 41273148
• SCSB-14698782

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library