The Transformative Corporatism of Eastern Europe
The Transformative Corporatism of Eastern Europe
Author(s): Elena A. IankovaSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Political economy, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Eastern Europe; state socialism; collapse of socialism; 1989; corporatism; communist legacy; economic system; economic reforms;
Summary/Abstract: The Second World War left Eastern Europe entrapped in an experiment that was known as state socialism. While the gradual erosion of state socialism was due mainly to its hyperpaternalistic political structure and its suicidal economics, its collapse in 1989 marked the culmination of a long, gradual, and almost imperceptible accumulation of corporatist adjustments, beginning with the liberalization wave in the Soviet Union in 1953-56. In East Germany in 1953, Poland and Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Poland in 1968, 1970, 1976, and 1980-81 , party elites, shaken by profound mass discontent and rebellion against the economic and political legacies of the communist regime, were rapidly reshuffled. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 12/1998
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 222-264
- Page Count: 43
- Language: English
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