1st Edition

Perspectives For Change In Communist Societies

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

To what degree has political, social, and economic change been stimulated by the impact of the past and present policies of Communist political systems? Perhaps more important, to what extent has the momentum for change, stimulated by past policies, been frustrated by the nature of these systems? This volume, an interdisciplinary and international work based on a symposium presented at the October... Read more
Preface -- Aspects of Political Change -- Marxism-Leninism: Systemic Legitimacy and Political Culture -- The Leading Role of the Party: Is There a Change? -- Imperatives of Economic Reform and Communist Political Systems -- The Impact of CMEA Integration on Social Change in Eastern Europe: The Case of Hungary's New Economic Mechanism -- Participation, Change, and Stability: Yugoslavia in Comparative Perspective -- Thirty Years of Crisis Management in Poland -- Ethnicity and Change in the Soviet Union

Biography

Teresa Rakowska-Ηarmstone