East European Politics Research Articles

The Social Origins of East European Politics

The Social Origins of East European Politics

The Effects of Leadership Succession in the Soviet Union

What happens when there is a change in leadership in the Soviet Union? Does the period of leadership succession present unusual opportunities for domestic policy concerns to be vented? Or, are major issues on the Soviet domestic policy agenda addressed mainly after a succession of leadership is completed? Answers to such questions have a bearing on how the Soviet elite is replenished, and more generally help to improve understanding of Soviet politics. Two specialists on Soviet and East European politics, Valerie Bunce and Philip Roeder, have been drawn to different conclusions about these issues.

Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics. Edited by Pedro Ramet. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1984. 282 pp. $35.00.

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The East European Political System: Instruments of Power. By Baruch A. Hazan. Westview Special Studies on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Boulder, Colo., and London: Westview Press, 1986. xvi, 396 pp. Figures. Tables. $25.00, paper.

The East European Political System: Instruments of Power. By Baruch A. Hazan. Westview Special Studies on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Boulder, Colo., and London: Westview Press, 1986. xvi, 396 pp. Figures. Tables. $25.00, paper. - Volume 45 Issue 4

Religion and Nationalism in Soviet and East European Politics

Preface to the Second Edition ix Preface to the First Edition xi Part I. Comparative Analysis 1. The Interplay of Religious Policy and Nationalities Policy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / Pedro Ramet 3 2. The Historical Role of Religious Institutions in Eastern Europe and Their Place in the Communist Party-State / Peter F. Sugar 42 3. Jewish Nationality and Religion in the USSR and Eastern Europe / Zvi Gitelman 59 Part II. The Soviet Union 4. The Russian Orientation and the Orthodox Church: From the Early Slavophiles to the Neo-Slavophiles in the USSR / Dimitry Pospielovsky 81 5. Catholicism and Nationalism in Lithuania / Kestutis K. Girnius 109 6. Religion and Nationalism in Ukraine / Vasyl Markus 138 7. Religion and Nationalism in Soviet Georgia and Armenia / S. F. Jones 171 8. Islam and Nationalism in Soviet Central Asia / James Critchlow 196 Part III. Eastern Europe 9. The Luther Revival: Aspects of National Abgrenzung and Confessional Gemeinschaft in the Germanic Democratic Republic / Dan Beck 223 10. Church and Nationality in Postwar Poland / Vincent C. Chrypinski 241 11. Christianity and National Heritage among the Czechs and Slovaks / Pedro Ramet 264 12. Religion and Nationalism in Hungary / Leslie Laszlo 286 13. Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslavia / Pedro Ramet 299 14. Religion and Nationalism in Romania / Trond Gilberg 328 15. Nationalism and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church / Spas T. Raikin 352 16. The Fate of Islam in the Balkans: A Comparison of Four State Policies / Zachary T. Irwin 378 Part IV. Conclusion 17. Conclusion / Pedro Ramet 411 Notes 425 About the Contributors 499 Index 503

The Soviet and East European Political Dictionary. By Barbara P. McCrea, Jack C. Piano, and George Klein. Clio Dictionaries in Political Science, no. 4. Santa Barbara, Calif, and Oxford: ABC Clio Information Services, 1984. xx, 367 pp. $30.00.

The Soviet and East European Political Dictionary. By Barbara P. McCrea, Jack C. Piano, and George Klein. Clio Dictionaries in Political Science, no. 4. Santa Barbara, Calif, and Oxford: ABC Clio Information Services, 1984. xx, 367 pp. $30.00. - Volume 44 Issue 2

The Politics of Backwardness in Hungary, 1825-1945

Why did Hungary, a country that shared much of the religious and institutional heritage of western Europe, fail to replicate the social and political experiences of the latter in the nineteenth and early twenties centuries? The answer, the author argues, lies not with cultural idiosyncracies or historical accident, but with the internal dynamics of the modern world system that stimulated aspirations not easily realizable within the confines of backward economics in peripheral national states. The author develops his theme by examining a century of Hungarian economic, social, and political history. During the period under consideration, the country witnessed attempts to transplant liberal institutions from the West, the corruption of these institutions into a "neo-corporatist" bureaucratic state, and finally, the rise of diverse Left and Right radical movements as much in protest against this institutional corruption as against the prevailing global division of labor and economic inequality. Pointing to significant analogies between the Hungarian past and the plight of the countries of the Third World today, this work should be of interest not only to the specialist on East European politics, but also to students of development, dependency, and center-periphery relations in the contemporary world.

Jane P. Shapiro and Peter J. Potichnyj, editors. Change and Adaptation in Soviet and East European Politics. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. xii, 238 pp. $18.50.

Jane P. Shapiro and Peter J. Potichnyj, editors. Change and Adaptation in Soviet and East European Politics. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. xii, 238 pp. $18.50.

Political Development and Political Change in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study. By Jan F. Triska and Paul M. Johnson. Monograph Series in World Affairs, vol. 13: Change and Survival: Studies in Social Dynamics in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Essays In Honor of Josef Korbel, Book 2. Denver: University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies, 1975. xvi, 74

Political Development and Political Change in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study. By Jan F. Triska and Paul M. Johnson. Monograph Series in World Affairs, vol. 13: Change and Survival: Studies in Social Dynamics in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Essays In Honor of Josef Korbel, Book 2. Denver: University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies, 1975. xvi, 74 pp. Tables. Paper. - The Dynamics of Soviet Politics. Edited by Paul Cocks, Robert V. Daniels, and Nancy Whittier Heer. Russian Research Center Studies, 76. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1976. x, 427 pp. $17.50. - Change and Adaptation in Soviet and East European Politics. Edited by Jane P. Shapiro and Peter J. Potichnyj. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. xii, 236 pp. Tables. $18.50. - Volume 37 Issue 1

Change and Adaptation in Soviet and East European Politics

Journal Article Change and Adaptation in Soviet and East European Politics Get access Change and Adaptation in Soviet and East European Politics. Edited by Jane P. Shapiro and Peter J. Potichnyj. New York: Praeger. 1976. (Distrib. in UK by Martin Robertson, London.) 236 pp. £12.05. Elizabeth Balsom Elizabeth Balsom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 1978, Pages 139–140, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615528 Published: 01 January 1978

East European Integration and European Politics

East European Integration and European Politics

East European Integration and European Politics

East European Integration and European Politics

“Better Fewer but Better”: On Approaches to the Study of Soviet and East European Politics

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeAbstractLe but de ce mémoire est de discuter la valeur de l’approche de groupes de pression traditionnellement utilisée dans l’étude des états communistes de l’Union soviétique et de l’Europe de l’Est.Les auteutrs croient que l’approche de groupes de pression, développée par H. Gordon Skilling entre autres, est utile en tant que stratagème descriptif, mais ne pose cependant pas les questions fondamentales sur les rapports entre la société, la politique et l’économie. Telle quelle, cette approche ne dévoile pas grand chose en ce qui concerne les postes de commande stratégique des structures clées de ces états communistes.L’analyse des classes, développée par Anthony Giddens et Frank Parkin, reconnaît que le pouvoir a plusieurs facettes; elle ne considère pas uniquement la négociation ou lo coercition, mais également la justesse et la moralité, et examine le rapport état-société que plusieurs contradictions vient pour ainsi dire compliquer et embrouiller.Cette analyse est méthodologiquement plus forte parce qu’elle examine des événements particuliers dans le contexte de développements plus vastes, au contraire de l’approche de groupes de pression, qui souvent ignore la perspective élargie.

The Pitfalls of the Theory of Modernization

Professor Korbonski has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay with which I find myself largely in disagreement, in general and in detail. I hope that the following brief comments will indicate with what, and why, I disagree. But in spite of my disagreements I think that Professor Korbonski’s effort was well worth making. Indeed, I share his view that the study of East European politics can well profit from the study of political development and comparative politics, and indeed already has, for example, from his and Professor Janos’s work.

Aspects of Planometrics. By Alfred Zauberman. With contributions by A. Bergstrom, T. Kronsjö, and E. J. Mishan with M. J. Ellman. London School of Economics and Political Science, Papers in Soviet and East European Law, Economics, and Politics, 2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. xiii, 318 pp. $9.50.

Aspects of Planometrics. By Alfred Zauberman. With contributions by <i>A. Bergstrom</i>, <i>T. Kronsjö</i>, and <i>E. J. Mishan</i> with <i>M. J. Ellman</i>. London School of Economics and Political Science, Papers in Soviet and East European Law, Economics, and Politics, 2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. xiii, 318 pp. $9.50.

Writers and Journalists: A Pressure Group in East European Politics

Writers and Journalists: A Pressure Group in East European Politics

Personality and Culture in East European Politics.

Personality and Culture in East European Politics.