East European Alternatives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East European Alternatives write by Elemér Hankiss. This book was released on 1990. East European Alternatives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text asks whether Eastern European societies can escape from the grip of totalitarian domination, and build up Western democratic systems. The author describes recent events in Hungary and compares them with those in other East European countries, before suggesting policies for the future.
The Alternative in Eastern Europe
The Alternative in Eastern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Alternative in Eastern Europe write by Rudolf Bahro. This book was released on 2020-05-05. The Alternative in Eastern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contemporary Marxist writer provides analyses of socialist theory, modern political struggle, and socialist societies in Eastern Europe.
Alternative Globalizations
Alternative Globalizations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternative Globalizations write by James Mark. This book was released on 2020-02-11. Alternative Globalizations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness across a socialist world.
Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe
Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe write by Sabrina P. Ramet. This book was released on 2019-06-12. Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe examines the historical examples of Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Spanish Anarchism, suggesting that, in spite of their differences, they had some key features in common, in particular their shared hostility to individualism, representative government, laissez faire capitalism, and the decadence they associated with modern culture. But rather than seeking to return to earlier ways of working these movements and regimes sought to design a new future – an alternative future – that would restore the nation to spiritual and political health. The Fascists, for their part, specifically promoted palingenesis, which is to say the spiritual rebirth of the nation. The book closes with a long epilogue, in which Ramet defends liberal democracy, highlighting its strengths and advantages. In this chapter, the author identifies five key choke points, which would-be authoritarians typically seek to control, subvert, or instrumentalize: electoral rules, the judiciary, the media, hate speech, and surveillance, and looks at the cases of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, Jarosław Kaczyński’s Poland, and Donald Trump’s United States.
Staging Postcommunism
Staging Postcommunism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Postcommunism write by Vessela S. Warner. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Staging Postcommunism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well. Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros ̧ca, Ban ̧uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
