REGIME AND SOCIETY IN EASTERN EUROPE (1956-1989)
FIVE CASE STUDIES IN COMPARISON: BULGARIA, POLAND, HUNGARY, CZECHSLOVAKIA, and GDR
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION TO THE METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
Ivaylo Znepolski, Modes of Comparative Studies of the Communist States in Eastern Europe – Towards a Theory of Detotalitarization
CHAPTER ONE:
Ivaylo Znepolski, Incidents in Science: University, Political Power and Ideology in “Really Existing Socialism”
CHAPTER TWO:
Dariusz Stola, Patterns of the Evolution of the Communist Regime: The Case of International Mobility from Poland
CHAPTER THREE:
Oldřich Tŭma, Tomáš Vilímek, Incidents in Czechoslovakian “Socialist Management” between 1956 and 1989: Conflict and Reconciliation
CHAPTER FOUR:
Ádám Takács, The Sociological Incident: State Socialism, Sociology and Social Critique in Hungary
CHAPTER FIVE:
Thomas Lindenberger, “Havarie”: Reading East-German Society through the Violenc/se of Things
INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION:
Ivaylo Znepolski, From the Great Event to Incidents – a Reconstruction of the Event Identity of Historical Change