[PDF] Public Opinion Polling In Czechoslovakia 1968 69 eBook

Author : Harold Gordon Skilling
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1400871158

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For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed. H. Gordon Skilling provides a comprehensive analysis of the events of 1968, assessing their significance both for Czechoslovakia and for communism generally. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, and 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces of 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces on 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Karen Dawisha
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521386524

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In this revised second edition of this highly successful book, Karen Dawisha shows how the first five years of the Gorbachev era have affected the reform process in Eastern Europe.

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136637362

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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Grzegorz Ekiert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1996-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400822041

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Classical images of state-socialism developed in contemporary social sciences were founded on simple presuppositions. State-socialist regimes were considered to be politically stable due to their pervasive institutional and ideological control over the everyday lives of their citizens, impervious to reform and change, and representative of extreme political and economic dependency. Despite their contrasting historical experiences, they have been treated as basically identical in their institutional design, social and economic structures, and policies. Grzegorz Ekiert challenges this notion in a comparative analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia (1968-76), and Poland (1980-89). The author maintains that the nature and consequences of these crises can better explain the distinctive experiences of East Central European countries under communist rule than can the formal characteristics of their political and economic systems or their politically dependent status. He explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and state institutions, altered the relationship between the state and various groups and organizations within society, and modified the political practices of these regimes. He shows how these events transformed cultural categories, produced collective memories, and imposed long-lasting constraints on mass political behavior and the policy choices of ruling elites. These crises shaped the political evolution of the region, produced important cross-national differences among state-socialist regimes, and contributed to the distinctive patterns of their collapse.

Author : Ekrem Karakoç
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198826923

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This book discusses the origins and trajectories of political parties, welfare policies, and income inequality, and how the former two affects the latter.