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Slavic Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-635
Author(s):  
Judit Bodnár
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Global History ◽  
Central European ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
History Of ◽  
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Peripheral Vision: Social Science and the History of Communist Eastern Europe

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padraic Kenney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Peripheral Vision ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Central European ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
East European ◽  
History Of ◽  
European University

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scholarly journals The social crisis of 'central'- eastern Europe since 1989

1997 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 343-353
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Fatić
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Transition ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
Central European ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Eastern

This paper deals with specific aspects of the crisis of social policy on the "central"-eastem European region, after the onset of political changes that commenced in 1989 with the so-called ..anti-communist revolutions", especially in "central" European countries. The period that began then has been characterised by fast political "transition" and restructuralisation of the economy and political institutions. It has brought with it the excitements of the "capitalisation" of the economy and society, greater individual liberties and rights. However, it has also inflicted on the region a social crisis of apocalyptic dimensions, which is truly unprecedent in this century's history of eastern Europe. The paper explores some particular elements of this social crisis, both statistically and qualitatively. These aspects of the crisis are interpreted, and in its concluding section the paper purports to suggest that any institutional and political change tends to have its more or less devastating social price, which in the case of most countries of "central"-eastern Europe could be have been lower if the reform had progressed at a more moderate and better planned pace.

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