Steven Saxonberg

Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism

Regime Survival in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique comparative study examining why some communist regimes remain in power, whilst others have fallen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9781107023888
• ISBN-10: 1107023882
• Artikelnr.: 36955982

Autorenporträt

Steven Saxonberg is Professor of Sociology at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. He has published over 50 articles in journals and books on the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the post-communist developments in this area. His first book The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland (2001) was awarded second place in the UNESCO Stein Rokkan competition for best book in comparative social science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Communist regime types
3. Nationalism and patrimonial communism
4. Ideology and opposition to communism
5. Revolutionary potential and revolutionary outcomes
6. Transitions without revolutions
7. Non-transitions among maturing countries
8. Non-transition and patrimonial communism
9. What next?