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Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 : geopolitical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts / Tomas Kavaliauskas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kavaliauskas, Tomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism--Europe, Central.
- Post-communism.
- Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.
- Geopolitics.
- Social change.
- Europe, Central--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Central.
- Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Europe, Central--Social conditions--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-.
- Europe, Central--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. In a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates post-communist countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. </sp
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Defining Central Europe as a Postcommunist Region; 2 Positive and Negative Freedom in Central Europe before and after 1989; 3 Virtual and Real Freedom in Central Europe after 1989; 4 The Complete and Incomplete Transition in Central Europe; 5 Fluctuating Socioeconomics and Postsocialist Inverted Morals; 6 The Salvation of the Two Europes in 1968 from the Perspective of 1989; 7 Vilnius 10 Group-Geopolitical Emancipation or a Lost Opportunity for Angelic Moral Politics?; 8 The Demiurge of the EU and Central Europe
- 9 Different Meanings Applied to May 9th Victory Day in WWII10 Social and Political Meaning of Light in Central Europe before and after 1989; 11 Communist Nostalgia as Extrapolation of the Past into the Present; 12 Katyń Does Not Happen Twice; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-58444-1
- 9786613896896
- 0-7391-7411-8
- OCLC:
- 853359982
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