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Author : Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Opinion Pooling in Czechoslovakia written by Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1972 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Dawisha
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521386524
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Eastern Europe, Gorbachev, and Reform:The Great Challenge written by Karen Dawisha and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-06-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised second edition of this highly successful book, Karen Dawisha shows how the first five years of the Gorbachev era have affected the reform process in Eastern Europe.
Author : Archie Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349161829
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Political Culture and Political Change in Communist States written by Archie Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264024654
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book OECD Economic Surveys: Czech Republic 2006 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2006 edition of OECD's periodic review of the Czech economy finds that economic growth prospects have improved and that monetary conditions are good, but that much work is needed in public spending reform, improving the labour market, and ...
Author : Harold Gordon Skilling
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871158
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution written by Harold Gordon Skilling and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed. H. Gordon Skilling provides a comprehensive analysis of the events of 1968, assessing their significance both for Czechoslovakia and for communism generally. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, and 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces of 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions. The author's account is based on all available written sources, including unpublished Communist Party documents and interviews conducted in Czechoslovakia in 1967, 1968, 1969. He examines the historical background, the main reforms and political forces on 1968, international reactions, the Soviet intervention, and the experiment's collapse, concluding with his reasons for regarding the events of the Prague spring as a movement of revolutionary proportions. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Walter D. Connor
Publisher : New York : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Public Opinion in European Socialist Systems written by Walter D. Connor and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1977 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas K. Murphy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672806
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Czechoslovakia Behind the Curtain written by Thomas K. Murphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, the West--especially in the popular media--tended to view communism as a monolithic phenomenon, with little variation throughout the Eastern Bloc. Yet culture and geography contributed to social diversity among and within communist systems. Drawing on interviews with approximately 100 Czechs and Slovaks, the author provides new perspectives on day-to-day life in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Their recollections paint a more complex picture of the life on the other side of the Iron Curtain, from the Sputnik era reforms of the early 1960s, through the tumult of the 1968 Prague Spring and the subsequent Soviet invasion, to the Velvet Revolution, the collapse of the communist regime and the formation of democratic Czechoslovakia in 1989.
Author : Ondřej Daniel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869252
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism written by Ondřej Daniel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on wide range of inspirations to provide a well-balanced picture of the popular culture and subcultures of Czech post-socialism. What were the continuities and discontinuities of the post-socialist popular culture, mentalities and society during the period of late state socialism? What were the different mechanisms of ‘creating the Other’ in popular culture and subcultures? This volume shows the diverse trajectories of the late socialist (and older national) cultural practices and the related set of values and beliefs in new transitory circumstances. Whereas many scholars emphasize the tendency to sustain in a more or less adapted form under the new circumstances, the chapters and case studies of this book demonstrate a slightly different, more nuanced development.
Author : Adam Whybray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350104647
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Art of Czech Animation written by Adam Whybray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Švankmajer and Jirí Barta. Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects. In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers. Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema.
Author : Lennart Maschmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197745881
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Subversion written by Lennart Maschmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Subversion, Lennart Maschmeyer provides a powerful new theory and analysis of an age-old concept. While a strategy of subversion offers great strategic promise in theory, it faces an underappreciated set of challenges that limit its strategic value in practice. Drawing from two major cases--the KGB's use of traditional subversion methods to crush the Prague Spring in 1968 and Russia's less successful use of cyberwarfare against Ukraine since 2014--Maschmeyer demonstrates both the benefits and weaknesses of the approach. While many believe that today's cyber-based subversion campaigns offer new strategic opportunities, they also come with their own challenges. Because of these disadvantages, cyber operations continue to fall short of expectations--most recently in the Russo-Ukrainian war. By showing that traditional subversion methods remain the more potent threat, Subversion forces us to reconsider our fears of the subversive potential of cyberwar.
Author : Ithiel de Sola Pool
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351291068
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Politics in Wired Nations written by Ithiel de Sola Pool and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ithiel de Sola Pool was a pioneering social scientist, a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in the development of the social sciences. Passionately engaged in politics, he continued his role of leadership throughout his life, building the MIT Political Science Department into an outstanding group. He organized international teams of social scientists and collaborated widely to develop the understanding of social change. He was a frequent adviser to governments as consultant and in-house critic, and a successful advocate of limits on government regulation. Politics in Wired Nations presents his writings on the social and political impact of different communication systems and new telecommunications technology.Included in this volume is the first study of trends in a global information society, and the first study of social networks and the "small world" phenomenon that creates new relationships and routes of informal influence and political power, both domestic and international. Pool's essays on the politics of foreign trade, the influence of American businessmen on Congress, and changeable "unnatural" institutions of the modern world (e.g., bureaucracies, mega-cities, and nation-states) are herein contained. Pool describes a nonviolent revolution in freedom and political control that is possible as the world changes from the era of one-way mass communications--targeted to national audiences--to a new era of abundant, high-capacity, low-cost, interactive, and user-controlled communications on a global scale. He discusses policy choices for freedom, the battlegrounds ahead, and the risks of government involvement in the regulation of new telecommunication technologies.
Author : Ivana Marková
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263136
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe written by Ivana Marková and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These ten essays are concerned with theoretical and empirical analyses of trust and distrust in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989. Differences between meanings of trust in countries with democratic traditions and in post-totalitarian countries raise questions about the ways in which history, culture and social psychology shape the nature and development of political phenomena. The authors show that while political and economic changes can have rapid effects, cultural and psychological changes may linger behind and influence the quality of political trust and representations of democracy.
Author : Agnieszka Paczyńska
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027106269X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy written by Agnieszka Paczyńska and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization of public-sector industries. How much influence did various societal groups have on this transition to a market economy, and what explains the variances in interest-group influence across countries? In this book, Agnieszka Paczyńska explores these questions by studying the role of organized labor in the transition process in four countries in different regions—the Czech Republic and Poland in eastern Europe, Egypt in the Middle East, and Mexico in Latin America. In Egypt and Poland, she shows, labor had substantial influence on the process, whereas in the Czech Republic and Mexico it did not. Her explanation highlights the complex relationship between institutional structures and the “critical junctures” provided by economic crises, revealing that the ability of groups like organized labor to wield influence on reform efforts depends to a great extent on not only their current resources (such as financial autonomy and legal prerogatives) but also the historical legacies of their past ties to the state. This new edition features an epilogue that analyzes the role of organized labor uprisings in 2011, the protests in Egypt, the overthrow of Mubarak, and the post-Mubarak regime.
Author : Jack Bielasiak
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Polish Politics written by Jack Bielasiak and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a comprehensive discussion of the events in Poland between the rise of Solidarity in August 1960 and the martial law period.
Author : Frank L. Kaplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Czechoslovak Press and the Reform Movement, 1963-1968 written by Frank L. Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond June
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book From Dissident Truth to Market Transparency written by Raymond June and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681231514
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Women and Leadership around the World written by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri and published by IAP. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Leadership around the World is the third volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will is now being published to inform leadership scholars and practitioners. The purpose of this volume is to explore areas of women’s leadership in four regions around the world: the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Hence, we have included 14 chapters that cover a wide range of important topics relevant to women and leadership within specific contexts around the world. Our goal for this volume is to provide readers with explorations of women’s experiences as leaders, including recent research studies, analysis and interpretation of statistics unpacking the status of women in various sectors and countries, stories of influential women leaders with national or local spheres of influence, and including recommendations for positive change to increase women’s access to positions of authority. The volume contributors use various theories and conceptualizations to problematize, historicize, and analyze women’s limited access to power, and their agency as leaders from the grassroots to the national scene, from education to non-profits and business organizations. Overall, the book contributes interpretations of the status of women in various countries, presenting the stories behind the numbers and statistics and uncovering not only challenges but also opportunities for resiliency and effectiveness as leaders. The authors offer recommendations for change that cross national boundaries, such as structural changes in organizations that would open the door for more women to access positions of authority and be effective as leaders. It is rare to find a book with such a diverse array of topics and countries, making this a timely contribution to the literature on women and leadership. The authors remind us to continue to expand the literature base on women and leadership, drawing from both qualitative and quantitative studies as well as conceptual explorations of women as leaders in different countries, regions, indigenous communities, and across different sectors. The more we know, the better informed will be our efforts to create appropriate leadership development activities and experiences for emerging women leaders and girls around the world. This book contributes significantly to that very effort.
