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• List of Tables ; Preface; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The Institutional Sources of Crisis-Generating Tendencies; CHAPTER TWO: The Limited ""Reformability"" of State Socialism; CHAPTER THREE: The Logic of a Closed System: The Vicious Cycle of Decline ; CHAPTER FOUR: Crisis Management: The Trap of Negative Legitimation ; CHAPTER FIVE: Determinants of Normalization: Why Has It Failed to ""Normalize"" State Socialism in Poland? ; CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Decomposition of State Socialism: The Syndrome of Withdrawal ; CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond State Socialism.

• APPENDIX A: Stages of the ""Post-Martial Law"" Normalization"" A Bird's Eye View of Major Political Developments APPENDIX B: The Debt Trap; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a gener.

• List of Tables ; Preface; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The Institutional Sources of Crisis-Generating Tendencies; CHAPTER TWO: The Limited ""Reformability"" of State Socialism; CHAPTER THREE: The Logic of a Closed System: The Vicious Cycle of Decline ; CHAPTER FOUR: Crisis Management: The Trap of Negative Legitimation ; CHAPTER FIVE: Determinants of Normalization: Why Has It Failed to ""Normalize"" State Socialism in Poland? ; CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Decomposition of State Socialism: The Syndrome of Withdrawal ; CHAPTER SEVEN: Beyond State Socialism.

• APPENDIX A: Stages of the ""Post-Martial Law"" Normalization"" A Bird's Eye View of Major Political Developments APPENDIX B: The Debt Trap; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.

Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a gener.

• Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theories of State-Societal Relations
• 3. Soviet Collectivization
• 4. The Hungarian Uprising
• 5. Poland and Solidarity
• 6. Conclusion.
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This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.
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• Preface and AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: Political Crises, Mobilization, and Demobilization in East Central Europe3Pt. IThe Political Crisis and Its Aftermath in Hungary, 1956-196337Ch. 2The Party-State and Society during the Hungarian Revolution42Ch. 3The Soviet Invasion and the Defeat of the Revolution65Ch. 4The Political Crisis, Demobilization, and Regime Reequilibration in Hungary99Pt. IIThe Political Crisis and Its Aftermath in Czechoslovakia, 1968-1976121Ch. 5The Party-State and Society during the Prague Spring126Ch. 6The End of Socialism with a Human Face162Ch. 7The Political Crisis, Demobilization, and Regime Reequilibration in Czechoslovakia198Pt. IIIThe Political Crisis and Its Aftermath in Poland, 1980-1989215Ch. 8The Party-State and Society during the Solidarity Period222Ch. 9Poland under Martial Law and After257Ch. 10The Political Crisis and the Failure of Demobilization and Regime Reequilibration283Ch. 11Conclusions: Patterns and Legacies of Political Crisis, Demobilization, and Regime Reequilibration in East Central Europe305Notes331Bibliography405Index431.
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Classical images of state-socialism developed in contemporary social sciences were founded on simple presuppositions. State-socialist regimes were considered to be politically stable due to their pervasive institutional and ideological control over the everyday lives of their citizens, impervious to reform and change, and representative of extreme political and economic dependency. Despite their contrasting historical experiences, they have been treated as basically identical in their institutional design, social and economic structures, and policies. Grzegorz Ekiert challenges this notion in a comparative analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia (1968-76), and Poland (1980-89). The author maintains that the nature and consequences of these crises can better explain the distinctive experiences of East Central European countries under communist rule than can the formal characteristics of their political and economic systems or their politically dependent status. He explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and state institutions, altered the relationship between the state and various groups and organizations within society, and modified the political practices of these regimes. He shows how these events transformed cultural categories, produced collective memories, and imposed long-lasting constraints on mass political behavior and the policy choices of ruling elites. These crises shaped the political evolution of the region, produced important cross-national differences among state-socialist regimes, and contributed to the distinctive patterns of their collapse.
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In a comparative analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe (Hungary 1956-63, Czechoslovakia 1968-76, Poland 1980-89), this text challenges the notion that state-socialist regimes are politically stable due to their pervasive institutional and ideological control over their citizens. The book maintains that the nature and consequences of these crises can better explain the distinctive experiences of East Central European countries under communist rule than can the formal characteristics of their political and economic systems or their politically-dependent status. The book explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and states institutions, altered the relationship between the state and various groups and organizations within society, and modified the political practices of these regimes. It shows how these events transformed cultural categories, produced collective memories, and imposed long-lasting constraints on mass political behaviour and the policy choices of ruling elites. These crises, it argues, shaped the political evolution of the region, produced important cross-national differences amon.
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• Introduction
• The institutional sources of crisis-generating tendencies
• The limited "reformability" of state socialism
• The logic of a closed system : the vicious cycle of decline
• Crisis management : the trap of negative legitimation
• Determinants of normalization : why has it failed to "normalize" state socialism in Poland?
• The institutional decomposition of state socialism : the syndrome of withdrawal
• Beyond state socialism
• Appendix A. Stages of the "post-martial" law normalization : a bird's eye view of major political developments
• Appendix B. The debt trap.

Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a general theory and then applies it to the case of Poland. Contending that the breakdown of state socialism results from symbiosis of the state and the economy, the book describes how communist governments searched for tools that would replace the market mechanism and the rule of law. Doomed in advance by the absence of autonomy and competition, this search generated new crises by undermining the state's capacity to suppress individual interests and to direct the economy.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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