Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State - Couverture rigide

Bunce, Valerie

 
9780521584494: Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State
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ISBN 10 : 0521584493 ISBN 13 : 9780521584494
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce argues in this book that two factors account for these remarkable developments: the institutional design of socialism as a regime, a state, and a bloc, and the rapid expansion during the 1980s of opportunities for domestic and international change. When combined, institutions and opportunities explain not just when, how, and why these regimes and states disintegrated, but also some of the most puzzling features of these developments - why, for example, the collapse of socialism was largely peaceful and why Yugoslavia, but not the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia, disintegrated through war.

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From 1989 to 1992, all of the socialist dictatorships in Europe (including the Soviet Union) collapsed, as did the Soviet bloc. Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia dismembered, and the Cold War international order came to an abrupt end. Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce argues in this book that two factors account for these remarkable developments: the institutional design of socialism as a regime, a state, and a bloc, and the rapid expansion during the 1980s of opportunities for domestic and international change. When combined, institutions and opportunities explain not just when, how, and why these regimes and states disintegrated, but also some of the most puzzling features of these developments - why, for example, the collapse of socialism was largely peaceful and why Yugoslavia, but not the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia, disintegrated through war.

Revue de presse

'The argument is remarkable elegant and concise.' Contemporary European History

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521584493
ISBN 13 
9780521584494
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
222
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9780521585927: Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State

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ISBN 10 :  0521585929 ISBN 13 :  9780521585927
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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