OPEN ENDED HISTORY: DANGERS AND DILEMMAS OF TRANSITION

FATOS TARIFA (University of North Corolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

1998 • Pages: 134 • Size: 180 × 240 mm • Binding: Hard • Price: US $ 60/- Rs. 1200/-

(Special Issue of Journal of Social Sciences - No. 2)

The massive changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union since the collapse of Communism have given rise to a vast literature on post-communist transformation produced by numerous East European scholars as well as by an astonishingly large number of westerns scholars, sociologists, economists, political scientists, constitutionalists, social philosophers, historians, and also politicians, writers, journalists etc. With contributions by a number of distinguished social scientists, this volume provides a fresh look on a variety of topics-many of them neglected or under-researched in previous research-informing important conceptual, theoretical and methodological insights on post-communist transition and more generally, on social

Revolutionary change.

CONTENTS

Fatos Tarifa (USA) • Disparities and Uncertainties: Reflections on Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe
 

Wolf Heydebrand (USA) • On the Transformation of "Unresponsive" Societies: The Case of State Socialism
 

Steven Peaff (USA) • The Theory of Civil Society and the East German Revolution:

Movements, Protest, and the Process of Political Change
 

Christiane Lemake (Germany) • Contentious Actions in Comparative Perspective:

Is East Germany a Special Case?
 

Barbara Heyns (USA) • Meaning and Measurement in the Post-Communist Labor Market:

Employment and Unemployment in Poland, 1992-1996

Lynne Haney (USA) • The Creation of a Discretionary Welfare State:

Professionalization and the Politics of Welfare Reform in Hungary
 

Georg Vobruba (Germany) • The Social Dynamic of Welfare Gaps: Prolegomena to the Transnationalization of Sociology

Ken Palmer (USA) • Post-Communist Barriers to Democracy and Democratic Political Culture: The Case of Poland
 

Anthony Oberschall (USA) • Collective Violence in Bosnia
 

Fatos Tarifa¹ and Bas De Gaay Fortman² (1. USA, 2. The Netherlands) • Vulnerable Democracies:

The Challenge of Legitimacy of Post-Communist Systems

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