You might also like

More about Varieties of Transition - The East European and East German Experience

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 184 loyalty points

Book synopsis

In recent years the countries of eastern Europe have been undergoing a process of rapid social and political transformation. This process has brought with it common problems experienced on different levels: economic crisis, growing social insecurity and injustice, ethnic conflicts and civil strife. In addition, post--communist societies have encountered political, legal and social difficulties in coming to term with their own past. In this book, Claus Offe provides a lucid and insightful account of this complex process of transformation. In a wide--ranging discussion he analyses the problems brought about by the creation of new political and economic orders in the countries of central and eastern Europe, and argues that the way forward is to build and consolidate a new democratic polity, a new economy, and a new conception of nationhood capable of absorbing ethnic conflict. He examines the comparatively straightforward -- but nonetheless extremely rocky -- a special patha to capitalism followed by the former German Democratic Republic, and analyzes the effects which the collapse of communism has had on western democracies. Varieties of Transition will be welcomed by students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines including politics, sociology, European Studies, German Studies and modern history.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government

• Full title: Varieties of Transition - The East European and East German Experience
• Author: Claus Offe
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780745616087
• ISBN: 0745616089
• ID: 04907706
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 964 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 168 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. October 1996

Trending among others

---

---

---