Toward Socialism with a Human Face?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Trencsényi ◽  
Michal Kopeček ◽  
Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič ◽  
Maria Falina ◽  
Mónika Baár ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Political Language ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
State Socialist

Marxist revisionism, providing a powerful political language of intra-systemic opposition, was characterized by an effort to restore the relative autonomy of the personality in the face of both society and history, to provide new ethics, a new way of life, and envision “socialism with a human face.” The 1960s witnessed an unprecedented boom of Marxist and non-Marxist intellectual and cultural production, ranging from the rediscovery of the inconvenient past to critical analyses of existing socialist societies and an artistic blossoming reconnecting East Central Europe to broader European intellectual and aesthetic currents. Another venue of dialogue was between unorthodox Marxists and religious thinkers struggling to find their way in secular state socialist regimes. The climax and eventually also the anti-climax of this revival was 1968, with the rise of reform communist movements, linking technocratic and democratic reformism with revolutionary radicalism coming mainly from the student movements.

scholarly journals Between East and West: Government–Nonprofit Relations in Welfare Provision in Post-Socialist Central Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1276-1292
Author(s):  
Terry Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Firm Basis ◽  
Church Organizations

This article reviews the main developments in social welfare provision in East Central Europe (ECE), the emergence of nonprofit organizations as welfare providers, and changing nonprofit–government relations in social welfare provision since the early 1990s. In assessing the strengths and weaknesses of nonprofit organization (NPO)–government relations in social welfare provision in ECE, the article suggests that after establishing a firm basis by the mid-2000s, to varying degrees in different countries, nonprofits have not been able to maintain a secure independent role in the face of fluctuating government attitudes to their role and growing competition from private sector and church organizations.

Simulating the great transformation: property change under prolonged informality in Hungary

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
József Böröcz
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Transformation Property ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Organizing Principles

Transformations of society-wide organizing principles or, ‘systemic’ features, of property relations are rare historical occurrences and constitute crucial aspects of social change. The recent architectonic rearrangement of the societies of East-Central Europe is especially remarkable as it represents a move away from a unique, very large-scale, comprehensive social experiment concerning the use of state power in establishing and maintaining putative ‘socialist property’ as a ‘systemic’ principle. The ongoing move away from that experiment—the post-state-socialist transition—is a vector with an unmistakable point of departure and a quite nebulous direction.

National Identities for Export: East European Cultural Diplomacy in Inter-War Pittsburgh

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZSOLT NAGY
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
National Identities ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
East European ◽  
National Image ◽  
The University ◽  
East Central European

AbstractThis article examines inter-war east-central European cultural diplomacy as played out in one apparently remote locale: the Nationality Rooms of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. Here, a local project originally intended to pay homage to the various immigrants of the Steel City was transformed into a transatlantic project in which the Czechoslovak, Hungarian and Romanian governments (among others) each aimed to construct and propagate a national image abroad. A close looks at this particular ‘transnational construction site’ reveals a surprisingly complex entanglement of cultural production, the construction of national identities, and foreign policy. Battles over space and artistic content also lay bare the sense of competition, urgency and anxiety that, this article argues, characterised inter-war cultural diplomacy in east-central Europe.

scholarly journals A lakóparkok és lakóparkszerű létesítmények általános jellemzői a magyarországi megyei jogú városokban

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 219-223
Author(s):  
Gábor Hegedűs
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Geographical Dispersion ◽  
State Socialist

The modern gated communities first appeared in East-Central Europe after the collapse of state socialist systems. Moving into gated communities turned into one characteristic form of residential segregation. Since the beginning of the 1990s gated communities (in Hungarian: lakópark, 'residential park') began to be built in Budapest and in its direct suburban gravitation zone in Hungary. The largest cities in Hungary have a special administra-tive status (City with County Rights). We analyzed residential parks and residential park-like developments in the so-called Cities with County Rights having mostly over 50 thousands inhabitants. We typified residential parks, analyzed their geographical dispersion in the category mentioned above. We can observe significant differences in the numbers and spatial distribution of residential parks amongst the analyzed cities.

Historical Writing in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Górny
Keyword(s):  
Historical Writing ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Post War ◽  
Control Education ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter focuses on historical writing in three central European states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. It looks at the long-term trends and phenomena in historical writing in the region. The first is the coexistence during the immediate post-war years of communist policy, together with more or less nationalistic historical interpretations. The next stage is typified by attempts to control education and research, and to reshape the organizational structure of historiography. An output of both of these phenomena was the ‘final’ or mature Marxist interpretations of Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak history. The next regional stage to have a considerable impact on the region’s historiography is the ‘golden age’ of the 1960s, when most of the innovative and influential books were published, and historians from East Central Europe came into closer contact with their colleagues from the western part of the continent.

The second phase of Neolithization in east-central Europe

Antiquity ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (289) ◽  
pp. 582-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central

This paper presents archaeological and palynological evidence for long continuation of the Mesolithic way of life in east-central Europe irrespective of the presence of early Neolithic farmers. The complete Neolithization of the area took place only about 3500 BC, as a consequence of long-term interactions between indigenous foragers and exotic farmers.

Solidarność: Reluctant Vanguard or Makeshift Coalition?

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Heyns ◽  
Ireneusz Bialecki
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Political Transitions ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Source Of Information

We analyze the election data from the first “almost free” political contest in the Eastern bloc, the Polish election of June 1989. Voting data for state socialist societies provide a novel source of information on the political transitions in process in East Central Europe; the source of electoral support for opposition candidates in Poland affords a glimpse of the emerging political groups that must deal with continuing economic crises while attempting to reconstruct or consolidate democratic procedures. Data on turnout and on the ecological patterning of votes for Solidarność and for the government coalition are reviewed. Electoral victory has transformed Solidarność from an opposition movement with strong trade union roots to a political coalition with a rather different constituency: the strongest relative support for Solidarność candidates was found in rural areas, particularly in the southeast, rather than in the urban, industrial centers where the movement was born.

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