Book/Printed Material East Central Europe and communism politics, culture, and society, 1943-1991

Title

• East Central Europe and communism politics, culture, and society, 1943-1991

Summary

• "The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

• Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949- author

Created / Published

• Abingdon, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Contents

• Communism's unintended consequences: an introduction -- The Soviet bloc, 1944-1956 -- The Soviet bloc, 1956-1980 -- The Soviet bloc, 1980-1989/90 -- Socialist mavericks: Yugoslavia and Albania, 1943-1991 -- Epitaph.

Headings

• -  Equality--Europe, Central--History--20th century
• -  Women's rights--Europe, Central--History--20th century
• -  Communism--Europe, Central
• -  Europe, Central--Economic conditions--20th century
• -  Europe, Central--Economic policy--20th century
• -  Europe, Central--Social policy--20th century
• -  Europe, Central--Politics and government--20th century

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
• -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

• 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

• HC244

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2022055674

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2022055674

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

• epub
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2022055674

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