1st Edition
In Search of Civil Society Independent Peace Movements in the Soviet Bloc
By Vladimir Tismaneanu
Copyright 1990
192 Pages
by
Routledge
In a time of massive social transformation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, worldwide attention has been focused on the growth of independent peace movements in this region. In Search of Civil Society is the first comprehensive analysis of the progressive social movements that are proving vital to the expansion of grassroots civil societies. The volume presents case studies of Poland,... Read more
1. Unofficial Peace Activism in the Soviet Union and East-Central Europe Vladimir Tismaneanu 2. The Independent Peace Movement in the USSR Eduard Kuznetzov 3. The Beginning of Civil Society: The Independent Peace Movement and the Danube Movement in Hungary Miklos Haraszti 4. Antimilitarism and the Independent Peace Movement in Czechoslovakia Christopher Lazarski 5. Against Socialist Militarism: The Independent Peace Movement in The German Democratic Republic Vladimir Tismaneanu
Biography
Vladimir Tismaneanu is Resident Scholar at the Foreign Policy Institute of Philadelphia and Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
"In concentrating on the peace movement, the book makes a valuable contribution to the broadening out of the analysis of change in Eastern Europe." -- Soviet Studies
