Tomas Kavaliauskas

Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012

Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts

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Produktbeschreibung

Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts by Tomas Kavaliauskas, is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. Using a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates postcommunist countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. Next to transitological interpretations, this study ventures upon negative and positive freedom (Isaiah Berlin) in Central Europe after two decades of post-communist transition. Kavaliauskas questions the meaning of completeness of postcommunist transition, both geopolitical and socioeconomic, when there are many transformations that do not necessarily mean unequivocal progress. The author also analyses why Central Europe in 1989, armed with civil disobedience, could not maintain its moral politics. But the book touches sensitive issues of memory as well: an examination of May 9th is provided from the Russian and the Baltic perspectives, revealing two opposing world views regarding this date of liberation or occupation. Finally, Kavaliauskas analyzes the tragedy at Smolensk airport, which became an inseparable part of Central European identity. Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 is an essential contribution to the literature on Central Europe and the lasting effects of Communism and its aftermath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9780739197318
• ISBN-10: 0739197312
• Artikelnr.: 40789518

Autorenporträt

By Tomas Kavaliauskas

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Defining Central Europe as a Post-communist Region Chapter 2.
Positive and Negative Freedom in Central Europe Before and After 1989
Chapter 3. Virtual and Real Freedom in Central Europe after 1989 Chapter 4.
The Complete and Incomplete Transition in Central Europe Chapter 5.
Fluctuating Socio-economics and Post-Socialist Inverted Morals Chapter 6.
The Salvation of the Two Europes in 1968 from the Perspective of 1989
Chapter 7. Vilnius 10 Group-Geopolitical Emancipation or a Lost Opportunity
for Angelic Moral Politics?