Revision: The Transition from communism to post-communism Cover Image

Recapitulare: Tranziţia de la comunism la post-comunism (Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, GDR, Bulgaria)
Revision: The Transition from communism to post-communism

Author(s): Anca Herghea
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: peaceful transition; violent transition; bottom up transition; top down transition; civil society; political regime type; popular democracy etc.

Summary/Abstract: This article intends to present a comparative analysis about transition in the post communist countries. The perspective the analysis uses is also a «post communist» one as far as it takes in account something that wasn’t before taken as important or relevant in the discussions about this problem – namely, the post communist country are different even all of them were communist. So, important nowadays is not only to see why similar countries have different forms of transition but also how can we understand this different forms if we not assume a difference among these countries, too. A proper answer, according to this analysis, could be obtained only if one studies the transition starting from the events which bring together all these countries but also from that ones which separate them. This kind of

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 129-130
  • Page Range: 18-25
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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