Format:
xvii, 280 Seiten :
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Illustration, Diagramme, Karten.
ISBN:
978-0-19-754924-7
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978-0-19-754923-0
Content:
"Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the social consequences of the post-1989 transition from state socialism to free market capitalism across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Blending ethnographic accounts with economic, demographic, and public opinion data, Ghodsee and Orenstein provide insight into the development of new, unequal, social orders. It explores the contradictory narratives on transition promoted by Western international institutions and their opponents, one of qualified success and another of epic catastrophe, and surprisingly shows that data support both narratives, for different countries, regions, and people. While many citizens of the postsocialist countries experienced significant progress in living standards and life satisfaction, enabling them to catch up with the West after a relatively brief recession, others suffered demographic and social collapses resulting from rising economic precarity; large scale degradation of social welfare that came with privatization; and growing gender, class, and regional disparities that have accompanied neoliberal reforms. Transition recessions lasted for decades in many countries, exceeding the US Great Depression in severity. Some countries still have not returned to pre-1989 levels of economic production or mortality; some have lost more than one-fifth of their population and are projected to lose more. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book deploys a sweeping array of data from different social science fields to provide a more holistic perspective on the successes and failures of transition, while unpacking the failed assumptions and narratives of Western institutions, Eastern policymakers, and citizens of former socialist states.
Note:
Introduction: Transition from communism - qualified success or utter catastrophe? -- The plan for a J-curve transition -- Plan meets reality -- Modifying the framework -- Counter-narratives of catastrophe -- Where have all the people gone? -- The mortality crisis -- Collapse in fertility -- Outmigration crisis -- Disappointment with transition -- Public opinion of winners and losers -- Evaluations shift over time -- Towards a new social contract? -- Portraits of desperation -- Resistance is futile -- Return to the past -- The patriotism of despair -- Conclusion: Towards an inclusive prosperity
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-754927-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-19-754926-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Postkommunismus
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Sozialer Wandel
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Bevölkerungsentwicklung
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Postkommunismus
;
Kapitalismus
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
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Jugend
;
Wirtschaft
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URL:
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Author information:
Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970-,
