[PDF] Eastern Europe 1968 1984 eBook

Author : Olga A. Narkiewicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This book traces the major political developments in Eastern Europe from de-Stalinization in 1956 to the present situation of unrest. The author covers the period thematically, tracing events and outlining the nature of politics, society and economy. She looks at political organization, economic reforms, the relations between the Soviet Union and the countries of the region, and at the major outbreaks: in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and in Poland in 1980 to 1982.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401208174

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Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political map. Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To what extent was Kundera right in assuming that, if to exist means to be present in the eyes of those we love, then Central Europe does not exist anymore, just as Western Europe as we knew it has stopped existing? What were the mental, cultural, and intellectual realities that lay beneath or behind his beautiful and graceful metaphors? Are we justified in rehabilitating political optimism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Are we able to reconcile the divided memories of Eastern or Central Europe and Western Europe regarding what happened to the world in 1968? And where is Central Europe now?

Author : Ben Fowkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The underlying theme of this new study is the communists' attempt to mould the region's varied economic, social, intellectual and cultural characteristics according to the model of the Soviet Union.

Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2005-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0345455827

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”—Dan Rather To some, 1968 was the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy assassinations; the riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; Prague Spring; the antiwar movement and the Tet Offensive; Black Power; the generation gap; avant-garde theater; the upsurge of the women’s movement; and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. In this monumental book, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that pivotal year, when television’s influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneous uprisings occurred simultaneously around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media, 1968 shows how twelve volatile months transformed who we were as a people—and led us to where we are today.

Author : Olga A. Narkiewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1003807666

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First Published in 1986 Eastern Europe 1968-1984 has been written in response to renewed interest in Eastern European events in the 60s and 70s. In writing this work the author concentrated on changes in the system in the post-Stalinist period, which were intended to reduce the political, economic, and social contradictions but have often accentuated them instead. The book brings themes like balance of power; Eastern Europe’s new economics; patterns of normalization; the CMEA’s economy and world recession; perception of Eastern Europe in the West; and East-West German rapprochement. This is an important read for students and researchers of East European Politics, East European history and International Relations.

Author : Sarah Meiklejohn Terry
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300034806

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A comprehensive look at both the diversity of Eastern Europe and the multiplicity of Soviet concerns in the region.

Author : Derek Aldcroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113620928X

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The fifth edition of The European Economy provides a succinct and lucid account of the development and problems of the European economy since the first world war. It covers the whole of Europe including Russia and Turkey. The text divides into several clearly defined sub-periods: the impact and aftermath of the first world war and recovery and reconstruction during the 1920s; the depression and the recovery of the 1930s; the impact of the second world war and the new political division in Europe; the post-war boom of the 1950s and 1960s and then into the growth slowdown of the 1970s and the persistent problems of inflation and unemployment. It then analyses the demise of the centrally planned economies of eastern Europe and the move to a more united Europe and then discusses the financial and economic problems that have emerged in the early twenty-first century. This new edition has been extensively revised, new chapters have been added and the reading lists updated. Though the volume is designed as a basic introductory text the authors elicit some of the lessons that can be learnt from a study of past development, one of which is the limited power of governments to influence the course of events and to combat the operation of market forces.

Author : William E Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0429718691

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A collection of workshop articles by The East-West Forum, located in Washington, D.C., and New York, a research and policy analysis organization sponsored by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. The Forum aims to build a bridge between scholarship and policymaking. This volume holds the examination of perestroika against the history of the communist countries of Europe.