Cultural Formations of Postcommunism: Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War

by Michael D. Kennedy

Book Overview

A powerful exposition of how culture shapes social and political change.

"Transition" is the name typically given to the time of radical change following the fall of communism, connoting a shift from planned to market economy, from dictatorship to democracy. Transition is also, in Michael Kennedy's analysis, a culture in its own right-with its own contentions, repressions, and unrealized potentials. By elaborating transition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816638586
• ISBN13: 9780816638581
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"