From Confrontation to Social Contract
From Confrontation to Social Contract
Author(s): Oleg G. RumiantsevSubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Politics
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Perestroika; awakening of civil society; state socialism; social movements; political changes; policy reform; 1980s;
Summary/Abstract: Perestroika has intensified sleeping antagonisms-social, national, and culturo-historical. But a special conflict of a more general sort lies behind them. It splinters social consciousness, confronting two concepts with each other. There "they" are-and here are "we." The inevitability of this confrontation, as well as its prevention, depends in large part on our perception of what lies behind this division. Reform is suffering from an ever greater arrythmia. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 05/1991
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 113-126
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
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