{"product_id":"social-currents-in-eastern-europe-9780822315483","title":"Social Currents in Eastern Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSocial Currents in Eastern Europe \u003c\/i\u003etraces the diverse social currents that have developed alongside and interacted with political and economic forces to bring about change in Eastern Europe. In this second edition—which significantly updates and expands the previous edition to include a new introduction, revisions throughout, as well as five new chapters, including timely material on ethnic war in the former Yugoslavia—Ramet extends and develops the theory of social change upon which the book is based.\u003cbr\u003eRamet draws on interviews conducted over a ten-year period with individuals active in arenas for social change—intellectual dissent, feminism, religious activism, youth cultures and movements, and trade unionism—in eight East European countries: East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. She shows how the processes leading to the ultimate collapse of communism began more than a decade earlier and how th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTables ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Second Edition x\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the First Edition xi\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations xv\u003cbr\u003e I. Introduction 3\u003cbr\u003e 2. Social Currents and Social Change 24\u003cbr\u003e II. Dissent and Parallel Society in the 1980s \u003cbr\u003e 3. Disaffection and Dissent in East Germany 55\u003cbr\u003e 4. Underground Solidarity and Parallel Society in Poland 84\u003cbr\u003e 5. Independent Activism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania 120\u003cbr\u003e III. Religious and Ethnic Currents \u003cbr\u003e 6. Religious Change and New Cults in Eastern Europe 155\u003cbr\u003e 7. Church and Dissent in Praetorian Poland 178\u003cbr\u003e 8. Serb-Albanian Tensions in Kosovo 196\u003cbr\u003e IV. A New Generation \u003cbr\u003e 9. Feminism in Yugoslavia 219\u003cbr\u003e 10. Rock Music and Counterculture 234\u003cbr\u003e 11. Young People: The Lost Generation 262\u003cbr\u003e V. Collapse of the Old Order \u003cbr\u003e 12. Bulgaria: A Weak Society 279\u003cbr\u003e 13. Strong Societies: Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia 288\u003cbr\u003e 14. Dominoes: East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Future of Europe 313\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Great Transformation 338\u003cbr\u003e VI. Building New Systems \u003cbr\u003e 16. Core Tasks for a Pluralist Order 371\u003cbr\u003e 17. Yugoslav Breakup and Ethnic War 401\u003cbr\u003e 18. Civil Society and Uncivil Chauvinism 431\u003cbr\u003e 19. Propositions About the Future 455\u003cbr\u003e Appendixes: Public Opinion Polls 461\u003cbr\u003e Notes 483\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 565\u003cbr\u003e Index 569\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406015504727,"sku":"9780822315483","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822315483.jpg?v=1730494249","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-currents-in-eastern-europe-9780822315483","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}