Post-communist politics : an introduction / Karen Henderson and Neil Robinson
- Bib ID:
- 1584726
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Henderson, Karen, 1954-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Prentice Hall, 1997
- xxiii, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 013442039X
- Summary:
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This wide-ranging and comprehensive text covers the development in the domestic politics of the formerly communist area of Europe: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, eastern Germany, Moldova, Lithuania, Albania. It aims both to clarify the chronology of changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, with details on new institutions, elections and contentious issues, and to place this information in an analytical framework that explains the basic problems of state construction and economic reform. It contains up-to-date information on all the countries of the formerly communist area of Europe since 1989, including election results, basic economic data, information on party development and chronologies for each country. This book is intended for undergraduate students of politics, European studies and international studies.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Describing radical change and post-communist politics
- Ch. 2. The USSR: The difficult rebirth of politics
- Ch. 3. Eastern Europe: Negotiated revolution and popular revolution
- Ch. 4. Creating democratic legitimacy
- Ch. 5. The rise of the republics and the demise of the USSR, 1990-91
- Ch. 6. Elections in Eastern Europe, 1990
- Ch. 7. The nature of post-communist transitions
- Ch. 8. Politics as crisis: Russia and the newly independent states, 1992-93
- Ch. 9. East European roads to democracy, 1991-93
- Ch. 10. Patterns of post-communist politics
- Ch. 11. The difficulties of democratic consolidation: Russia and the NIS, 1994-96
- Ch. 12. The new democracies of Eastern Europe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
- Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
- Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics
- Elections -- Europe, Eastern
- Elections -- Russia (Federation)
- Elections -- Former Soviet republics
- Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-
- Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
- Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government
- Other authors/contributors:
- Robinson, Neil, 1964-
- Copyright:
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