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1 online resource |
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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 99 |
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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 99
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: industrialisation, modernity and development in Eastern Europe; 1. Development and backwardness: the social origins of East European politics; 2. Capitalism or rural socialism? The dilemmas of renewal in Russia and the Balkans; 2.1 Rural communities and modernisation in Russian political thought; 2.2 Narodnichestvo, Marxism and the problem of capitalism in Russia; 2.3 The penetration of Narodnichestvo and Russian Marxism in South-East Europe; 2.4 The Slavophile alternative |
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2.5 Reorganising politics in the face of problems of development3. The ""peasant state": ideology and politics of agrarian movements in Central-Eastern Europe between the two world wars; 3.1 Formation and characteristics of agrarian parties; 3.2 ""Peasantism", the idea of a third way" and modernisation; 4. Communism and the ""third peasant way": competing internationals and development models in the USSR and Central-Eastern Europe; 4.1 Green or red? Competing internationals over development policies |
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4.2 Modernity, agriculture and industry: the Bolsheviks and ""primitive socialist accumulation" in the USSR5. Market socialism, national roads to socialism and competition with the West; 5.1 The end of the Second World War and political ruralism; 5.2 From ""command economy" to ""market socialism"; 5.3 The plurality of development models in socialism; 5.4 Social complexity, cultural change and political reform; 5.5 Development models and competition with the West; 6. Between otherness and globalisation: "real socialism", modernity and Gorbachev |
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6.1 ""Otherness" and modernity in European socialist countries' self-perception6.2 ""Growth without reforms" and the external world's penetration of European socialist societies; 6.3 Modernisation and the ""reformability" of the Soviet system; 6.4 Gorbachev's modernity: from globalisation to the ""socialist rule-of-law state"; 6.5 The end of European communist ""otherness"; 7. Conclusion: the challenges of modernity and post-modernity; 7.1 Eastern Europe's paths towards modernity; 7.2 The construction of modernity between autarky and interdependence |
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7.3 Modern and post-modern: politics in a globalised Eastern EuropeBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the mainstream flows of ideas, politics and itineraries towards modernity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans over two centuries from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Gorbachev administration. Unlike other books on the subject which view modernity based on the idea of Western European supremacy, this book outlines the various different pathways of development, and of growing industrialisation, urbanisation and secularisation which took place across the region. It provides rich insights on the complex |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Economic development.
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Politics and government.
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Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005184
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Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90005818
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Eastern Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kadas, Carolyn, translator
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| ISBN |
9781317566038 |
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1317566033 |
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9781315736129 |
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1315736128 |
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9781317566021 |
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1317566025 |
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9781317566014 |
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1317566017 |
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