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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: O'Neil, Patrick H., 1966- Revolution from within. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, ©1998 (OCoLC)645890920 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick H O'Neil |
ISBN: | 1858987660 9781858987668 |
OCLC Number: | 37694452 |
Description: | xviii, 257 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Transitions, Institutions and State Socialism -- 2. State Socialism and the Intelligentsia in Eastern Europe: Hungary in Comparative institutional Perspective, 1948-1988 -- 3. The Rise of the Reform Circles -- 4. The Organization of the Reform Circle Movement and the Party in Disorder -- 5. The Final Party Congress and the Reform Alliance: Victory or Defeat? -- 6. Institutional Order and the Path of Political Change: Hungary and Eastern Europe. |
Series Title: | Studies of communism in transition. |
Responsibility: | Patrick H. O'Neil. |
Abstract:
In this highly original book, Patrick O'Neil analyses the catalysts of the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and offers explanations for these events. The exceptional case of Hungary is used to support theoretical concepts regarding the transition in Eastern Europe using new empirical evidence and institutional theory.
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'. . . this work is highly original. It is a complete account of the process or organizational development and of the fate, rivalries, constraints, and political shortcomings of the reform circles and their predecessors. This book will be very useful for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of socialism and its transformation in eastern Europe. . .' -- Maria Csanadi, Slavic Reviews Read more...

