East Central Europe and Communism

The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded...

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Autor principal: Ramet, Sabrina P.
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description The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1214552025-03-20T13:10:45Z East Central Europe and Communism Ramet, Sabrina P. Berlin Wall Chernobyl Fall of the Berlin Wall Glasnost Hungarian uprising Perestroika Prague Spring Stalin Tito The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions. 2023-11-16T11:06:12Z 2023-11-16T11:06:12Z 2023-08-31T08:42:30Z 2023 book ONIX_20230831_9781000877083_25 OCN: 1350799403 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75955 9781000877083 9781032318202 9781032318189 9781003311515 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121455 eng Routledge Open History open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75955/1/9781000877083.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75955/1/9781000877083.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75955/1/9781000877083.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75955/1/9781000877083.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003311515 10.4324/9781003311515 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 6a64f2cf-f1e1-45bf-9fd5-69e3870e45f6 9781000877083 9781032318202 9781032318189 9781003311515 Routledge 338 [...] open access
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Hungarian uprising
Perestroika
Prague Spring
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East Central Europe and Communism
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Chernobyl
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Glasnost
Hungarian uprising
Perestroika
Prague Spring
Stalin
Tito
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