Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts by Tomas Kavaliauskas, is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. Using a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates postcommunist countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia.
Next to transitological interpretations, this study ventures upon negative and positive freedom (Isaiah Berlin) in Central Europe after two decades of post-communist transition. Kavaliauskas questions the meaning of completeness of postcommunist transition, both geopolitical and socioeconomic, when there are many transformations that do not necessarily mean unequivocal progress. The author also analyses why Central Europe in 1989, armed with civil disobedience, could not maintain its moral politics. But the book touches sensitive issues of memory as well: an examination of May 9th is provided from the Russian and the Baltic perspectives, revealing two opposing world views regarding this date of liberation or occupation. Finally, Kavaliauskas analyzes the tragedy at Smolensk airport, which became an inseparable part of Central European identity. Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 is an essential contribution to the literature on Central Europe and the lasting effects of Communism and its aftermath.
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Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012
Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts
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Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012
Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Defining Central Europe as a Postcommunist Region
- 2 Positive and Negative Freedom in Central Europe before and after 1989
- 3 Virtual and Real Freedom in Central Europe after 1989
- 4 The Complete and Incomplete Transition in Central Europe
- 5 Fluctuating Socioeconomics and Postsocialist Inverted Morals
- 6 The Salvation of the Two Europes in 1968 from the Perspective of 1989
- 7 Vilnius 10 Group—Geopolitical Emancipation or a Lost Opportunity for Angelic Moral Politics?
- 8 The Demiurge of the EU and Central Europe
- 9 Different Meanings Applied to May 9th Victory Day in WWII
- 10 Social and Political Meaning of Light in Central Europe before and after 1989
- 11 Communist Nostalgia as Extrapolation of the Past into the Present
- 12 Katyń Does Not Happen Twice
- Bibliography
- Index
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