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Harald Wydra - Communism and the Emergence of Democracy, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Communism and the Emergence of Democracy

Av Harald Wydra

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Before democracy becomes an institutionalised form of political authority, the rupture with authoritarian forms of power causes deep uncertainty about power and outcomes. This book connects the study of democratisation in eastern Europe and Russia to the emergence and crisis of communism. Wydra argues that the communist past is not simply a legacy but needs to be seen as a social organism in gestation, where critical events produce new expectations, memories and symbols that influence meanings of democracy. By examining a series of pivotal historical events, he shows that democratisation is not just a matter of institutional design, but rather a matter of consciousness and leadership under conditions of extreme and traumatic incivility. Rather than adopting the opposition between non-democratic and democratic, Wydra argues that the communist experience must be central to the study of the emergence and nature of democracy in (post-) communist countries.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-02-08
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 610 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 326
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521851695
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Harald Wydra is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition (2001).

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Review of the hardback: 'This original and powerful interpretive account of important political transformations in the twentieth century applies, in a creative fashion, the theory of fluid conjunctures to the understanding of communism and the emergence of democracy. Harald Wydra argues that understanding political transformations needs to take into account the social experiences of people in the chaotic historicity of extraordinary situations. Such situations have a logic of their own, which guides action and produces acts of signification that sustain and express the formation of political consciousness.' Michel Dobry, Professor of Political Science, Sorbonne University, Paris

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