Prof Theodore Weeks (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The volume focuses on emerging rooms for manoeuvre in the socialist societies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Unlike in other works, these areas of activity are not viewed as isolated spheres where citizens could act independently from political and societal constraints. They are rather conceptualized here as geographical, social or institutional spaces whose existence was either outside of political control or more or less intentionally allowed by authorities and other decision-makers. The contributions investigate how East Germans, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks and Czechs coped with the limitations of socialist reality. How did they adopt and successfully adapt given norms to their own specific interests? To what extent were the resulting rooms for manoeuvre not only essential aspects of the state socialist system, but even necessary to stabilize it? History of State Socialist Societies beyond the Dichotomy of Oppression and Resistance Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The volume focuses on emerging rooms for manoeuvre in the socialist societies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Unlike in other works, these areas of activity are not viewed as isolated spheres where citizens could act independently from political and societal constraints. They are rather conceptualized here as geographical, social or institutional spaces whose existence was either outside of political control or more or less intentionally allowed by authorities and other decision-makers. The contributions investigate how East Germans, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks and Czechs coped with the limitations of socialist reality. How did they adopt and successfully adapt given norms to their own specific interests? To what extent were the resulting rooms for manoeuvre not only essential aspects of the state socialist system, but even necessary to stabilize it? History of State Socialist Societies beyond the Dichotomy of Oppression and Resistance Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.