The Great Restoration: Post-Communist Transformations from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Restorations - 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 Great Restoration: Post-Communist Transformations from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Restorations write by Zenonas Norkus. This book was released on 2023-09-20. The Great Restoration: Post-Communist Transformations from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Restorations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘The revolutions of 1989’ remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-communist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a completely new perspective, theorising them as the next wave of modern social restorations, starting with the post-Napoleonic restorations in 1815. A comparison of the 1789 French and 1917 Russian revolutions was seminal for the rise of comparative historical and sociological research on modern revolutions. The book extends and supplements the sociology of modern revolutions by the first systematic outline of the sociology of modern social restorations grounded in a comparison of post-Napoleonic and post-communist restorations.
Post-Communist Transformations in Baltic Countries
Post-Communist Transformations in Baltic Countries - 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 Post-Communist Transformations in Baltic Countries write by Zenonas Norkus. This book was released on 2023-12-23. Post-Communist Transformations in Baltic Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Open access book provides a survey of the economic, health, and somatic progress of Baltic countries during the period 1918–2018, framed by the outline of the historical-sociological theory of modern social restorations, as originally conceived by the Austrian-American comparative historian Robert A. Kann. The author reworks Kann's theory to analyse post-communist transformations in the Baltic region. The book argues that the purpose of modern social restorations is to make restoration societies safe against a recurrence of revolution. There were two waves of modern social restorations: post-Napoleonic and post-communist. Most post-Napoleonic restorations were brief, because they failed to economically and socially outperform the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary systems. It considers Baltic restorations as laboratory cases of second-wave modern social restorations, because they encompass a triple restoration of the nation-state, capitalism, and democracy. The book assesses the performance success of Baltic restorations by comparing economic and social progress of Baltic countries during the periods of original independence (1918–1940), foreign-imposed state socialism (1940–1990), and restored independence (since 1990). It then elaborates the criteria to assess the ultimate performance success of these restorations by 2040, when restored Baltic states may endure longer than their ancestors in 1918–1940 and the complete foreign occupations era (1940–1990). The author, an expert in historical sociology, uses extensive historical-statistical data in cross-time comparisons to develop his analysis and create future projections. This book is of wide interest to sociologists, social demographers, political scientists, and economists studying the Baltic region. This is an open access book.
The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber
The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber - 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 Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber write by Alan Sica. This book was released on 2022-09-20. The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the latest thinking about Max Weber and his continuing influence on theoretical and empirical interests today. Bringing together the work of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines, it illuminates Weber’s thought in a number of key areas, including the methodology and philosophy of social science, comparative religion, the rationalization process, political sociology, the sociology of law, and the Protestant ethic and the development of capitalism. An international collection that demonstrates the enduring importance of Weber’s thought to contemporary sociology and the discipline’s major concerns, The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber will appeal to scholars in a range of disciplines, including sociology, social theory, politics, philosophy, law, and international relations.
Social Transformations and Revolutions
Social Transformations and Revolutions - 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 Social Transformations and Revolutions write by Johann P. Arnason. This book was released on 2018-02-22. Social Transformations and Revolutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prompted by the 25th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this volume reflects on revolutions and transformations around the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the political transformations after 9/11, the important changes following the global economic crisis, and the revolutionary transformations of India and China.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism - 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 Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism write by S. A. Smith. This book was released on 2014-01-09. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution. It is 'global', too, in the sense that the essays seek to integrate history 'from above' and 'from below', to trace the complex mediations between state and society, and to explore the social and cultural as well as the political and economic realities that shaped the lives of citizens fated to live under communist rule. The essays reflect on the similarities and differences between communist states in order to situate them in their socio-political and cultural contexts and to capture their changing nature over time. Where appropriate, they also reflect on how the fortunes of international communism were shaped by the wider economic, political, and cultural forces of the capitalist world. The Handbook provides an informative introduction for those new to the field and a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship for those seeking to deepen their understanding.
