Sovyetler Birliği Ekseninden Avrupa Birliği Üyeliğine: Doğu Avrupa Ülkelerinde Ekonomik ve Siyasal Dönüşümün Analizi

Abstract

Eastern European countries were exposed to Soviet occupation in the Second World War and were forced by the Soviet Union to implement a centrally planned economic system instead of a free trade system. Although revolts against the Socialist system were carried out by Eastern European countries, during the Cold War period these states remained as satellites of the Soviet Union. Eastern European countries, which benefited from the gaps in the international conjuncture in the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, were separated from the socialist system one by one. Eastern European countries, which needed economic and political transformation in order to maintain this new order in a stable manner, wanted to get the support of the European Union. This study aims to reveal the analysis of the economic and political progress that occurred between 2004 when the Eastern European countries became influenced by the socialist administration and the date of European Union membership.European Union influenced the transformation with the economic supports in addition to these political dynamics. For this purpose, the changes, pressures and reactions occurred in the region with the placement of the socialist system in Eastern European countries were analyzed and the support and problems encountered during the integration process to the European Union were analyzed. Historical and comparative analysis method was used in the study. As a result of the investigations, it has been found that social and economic progress has been made in Eastern European countries after the socialist period and that the European Union has contributed positively to the transformation.