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Elites in Transition
. Ed(S): Best, Heinrich; Becker, Ulrike
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Paperback. Editor(s): Best, Heinrich; Becker, Ulrike. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JHB; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 367.
"Who rules in Eastern Europe?" became a fundamental question for western researchers and other observers after communist regimes were established in the region, and it gained further importance as state socialism expanded into Central Europe after the Second World War. A political order which, according to Leninist theory of the state and to subsequent Stalinist political practice, was primarily a highly centralised and repressive power organisation, directed, as if it were natural, researchers attention towards the highest echelon of office holders in party and state. Extreme centralisation of power in these regimes was consequently linked to an elitist approach to ... Read more
"Who rules in Eastern Europe?" became a fundamental question for western researchers and other observers after communist regimes were established in the region, and it gained further importance as state socialism expanded into Central Europe after the Second World War. A political order which, according to Leninist theory of the state and to subsequent Stalinist political practice, was primarily a highly centralised and repressive power organisation, directed, as if it were natural, researchers attention towards the highest echelon of office holders in party and state. Extreme centralisation of power in these regimes was consequently linked to an elitist approach to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Germany
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Weisbaden, Germany
ISBN
9783810018441
SKU
V9783810018441
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99-15
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